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then presented to a committee selected by the 

 graduate council and composed of the follow- 

 ing members : Chairman, Dr. Elihu Thompson, 

 of West Lynn, Mass., electrical engineer; Mr. 

 Arthur Fairbanks, director of the Museum of 

 Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.; Dr. William Morton 

 Wheeler, director of the Bussey Institution, 

 Boston, Mass. 



This committee, after making a thorough 

 study of the achievements of the three candi- 

 dates proposed by the graduate council, unani- 

 mously selected Mr. Benjamin Garver Lamme 

 as the one who should receive the Joseph SuUi- 

 vant Medal. The medal will be awarded to 

 Mr. Lamme later in the year at a special meet- 

 ing to be held in honor of the occasion. 



INSTALLATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF 

 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY 



Before an audience of delegates from other 

 institutions, alumni and undergraduates of Le- 

 high University and friends of the university 

 which crowded the Packer Memorial Chapel, 

 Dr. Charles Russ Richards, former dean of the 

 College of Engineering of the University of 

 Illinois, was on October 14 inaugurated presi- 

 dent of Lehigh University. 



It was Founder's Day at Lehigh and on that 

 day commemorating the founding of the uni- 

 versity by Judge Asa Packer its presidents 

 have been inaugurated. Dr. Henry R. Price, 

 president of the board of trustees, presided. 

 After the induction address by Bishop Ethel- 

 bert Talbot and the greetings from the alumni 

 by Dr. Henry S. Drinker, president emeritus, 

 and from the faculty by Professor John L. 

 Stewart, Dr. Richards delivered an address 

 which indicated his plans for Lehigh's future. 



Dr. Richards outlined the influence on human 

 history of discoveries and inventions. He made 

 clear how the lack of scientific knowledge has 

 retarded, sometimes for centuries, the utiliza- 

 tion of known forces of nature. He traced the 

 history of our present civilization and indi- 

 cated the specific discoveries on ■which it rests. 

 He outlined also the trend of education from 

 the establishment of the University of Alex- 

 andria, and argued that industry and educa- 

 tion must go hand in hand if we are to be 

 saved in the future from the wasteful methods 

 of the past. 



Dr. Richards told his audience that Lehigh, 

 for sixty years a teaching college, was to em- 

 bark in the great work of engineering research 

 when he stated, "While teaching is the obvious 

 and apparently the chief function of a univer- 

 sity, it should be its purpose to place scientific 

 research in a position of equal importance with 

 the work of instruction for the world must 

 largely depend upon it to extend the bounda- 

 ries of knowledge and to show its applications 

 to the affairs of life." 



Lehigh ■ took this occasion to honor some of 

 her distinguished alumni with doctor degrees. 

 The list is as follows : 



DOCTOR OF SCIENCE 



William Bowie, C.E., '95, M.A., Se.D., chief 

 of the Division of Geodesy, U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. 



Morris Llewellyn Cooke, M.E., '95, former com- 

 missioner of public works, Philadelphia. 



Walter Savage Landis, Met.E., '02, M.S., '06, 

 chief technologist American Cyanamid Company, 

 New York City. 



Harlan Sherman Miner, B.S., '88, Se.D., chief 

 chemist, Welsbach Light Company, Gloucester, 

 N. J. 



Harvey Harkness Stoek, B.S., '87, E.M., '88, 

 Se.D., head of the department of mining engineer- 

 ing, University of Illinois. 



Eichard Hawley Tucker, C.E., '79, astronomer, 

 Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California. 



DOCTOR OF LAWS 



Manuel Victor Domeneeh, C.E., '88, former 

 commissioner of the interior, Porto Eico. 



Charles William Macfarlane, C.E., '76, Ph.D., 

 economist and author, Philadelphia. 



DOCTOR OF ENGINEERING 



Henry Gerber Beist, M.E., '86, mechanical and 

 electrical engineer. General Electric Company, 

 Schenectady, N. Y. 



After the inaugural ceremonies a luncheon 

 was served to the guests of the university and 

 later in the afternoon a reception and tea was 

 given to President and Mi-s. Richards in 

 Drown Memorial Hall. In the evening the 

 Lehigh Home Club gave a dinner to Dr. and 

 Mrs. Richards in the new Hotel Bethlehem. 

 The principal speakers at this dinner were 

 President David Kinley, of the University of 

 Illinois, and E. G. Grace (Lehigh '99), presi- 

 dent of the Bethlehem St«el Corporation. 



