SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 259 



Thomas Forsyth Hunt: 



In your chosen field you early carried forward experiments which have 

 resulted in great good to the farmers of the country. Your textbook on 

 the teaching of agronomy placed for the first time the knov/ledge of this 

 subject in pedagogical form. You have been a very successful teacher of 

 young men. Your work as an investigator, as an author, and as a teacher 

 prompts this College to confer upon you, through me, the degree of Doctor 

 of Science. 

 William Warner Tracy: 



Loyal son of this College, you have gained by your persistent efforts 

 through many years a high rank in that field of science which you have 

 made your life work. By your discoveries you have broadened the field 

 of human knowledge. For these reasons your Alma Mater takes great 

 pleasure in conferring upon you the degree of Doctor of Science, and in 

 presenting you with its diploma. 

 Gifford Pinchot: 



A graduate of Yale University, a student of forestry for years in the 

 great universities of the Old World, and for the past nine years chief forester 

 of the Department of Agriculture, Washington: In recognition of your 

 ability as a student of great forestry problems, of your bold initiative, and 

 of your courageous and sane methods of administration, we confer upon 

 you the degree of Doctor of Science, and present you with the appropriate 

 diploma of the College. 



James Burrill Angell: 



This College confers upon you an honorary degree, not with the expecta- 

 tion that it will add to the many similar honors which you have received 

 from the great universities of the country, but that we may express to you 

 our appreciation and sincere gratitude for the work you have done for the 

 people of the state and for the kindly feeling and most helpful spirit that 

 you have always shown toward this institution. This College honors itself 

 in conferring upon you, the first citizen of Michigan, as v/ell as its greatest 

 educator, the degree of Doctor of Laws, and in presenting you v/ith its 

 diploma. 



Eugene Davenport: 



In you this College desires to honor today one of its sons who has shov/n 

 rare ability as an organizer and administrator. You have developed with 

 wonderful rapidity a great agricultural school v/hich, in years to come, 

 must render valuable service to scientific and practical agriculture. I take 

 pleasure, on the nomination of the faculty and in behalf of the Board of 



