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and incisive; a practitioner with the insight that 
makes a physician great, and with a strong man’s 
sympathy that has brought comfort and courage 
to countless sufferers; Benjamin Osgood Peirce, 
physicist and mathematician, by whose skill in 
experiment and calculation intricate problems in 
heat and magnetism have been solved; a man of 
science ignorant only of his own deserts. Doctor 
of laws: George Washington Goethals, a soldier 
who has set a standard for the conduct of civic 
works; an administrator who has maintained se- 
curity and order among a multitude of workmen 
in the tropics; an engineer who is completing the 
vast design of uniting two oceans through a peak 
in Darien. 
The honorary degree of doctor of laws was 
conferred by Western Reserve University, at 
commencement, upon Dr. P. P. Claxton, 
United States Commissioner of Education; 
Dr. G. A. Gordon, pastor of the Old South 
Church, Boston, and Dr. T. C. Mendenhall. 
Dr. Mendenhall was presented by Dr. Frank 
Perkins Whitman, professor of physics, who 
said: 
Mr. President: I present to you, that he may 
receive at your hands the degree of doctor of laws, 
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, teacher, investigator, 
administrator, professor of physics, but chiefly 
leader and inspirer of youth in this state, and the 
Imperial University of Japan; effective interpreter 
of nature and her laws; president of two notable 
scientific schools; head of a great government 
department; leader or collaborator in many scien- 
tific undertakings of the United States. Though 
prevented in youth by circumstances, not according 
to his desire, from entering regularly on her 
courses of study, Professor Mendenhall is no 
stranger to Western Reserve, for at the old college 
in Hudson he found a congenial academic atmos- 
phere, and the inspiration of high scholarly ideals, 
as a special student with Professor Charles A. 
Young. To-day Western Reserve University cor- 
dially receives him into the company of her gradu- 
ates, at the summit of a career of which in the day 
of small beginnings she is happy to have had some 
part in laying the foundation. 
Among recipients of the doctorate of laws 
from the University of Pennsylvania are the 
following: Joseph Swain, president of Swarth- 
more College, and the orator of the day; Louis 
A. Duhring, professor emeritus of dermatol- 
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ogy and honorary curator of the dermatolog- 
ical collections of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania; James Tyson, emeritus professor of 
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 
and John Grier Hibben, president of Prince- 
ton University. 
At its recent commencement Northwestern 
University conferred the degree of doctor of 
science on Dr. Henry Smith Carhart, emeritus 
professor in the University of Michigan and 
from 1872 to 1886 professor of physics in 
Northwestern University. 
Brown University has conferred the hon- 
orary degree of doctor of science on Professor 
W. J. Hussey, director of the observatory of 
the University of Michigan. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Tuer board of scientific directors of the 
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research an- 
nounces the following appointments and pro- 
motions: Alexis Carrel (experimental surgery) 
has been promoted to the rank of member of 
the institute. The following associates have 
been made associate members for a term of 
three years: Peyton Rous (pathology and bac- 
teriology), Donald Dexter Van Slyke (chem- 
istry), Walter Abraham Jacobs (chemistry) 
and Frank Watts Bancroft (experimental 
biology). The following assistants have been 
made associates: Paul Franklin Clark (pathol- 
ogy and bacteriology), Richard Vanderhorst 
Lamar (pathology and bacteriology) and Har- 
dolph Wasteneys (experimental biology). The 
following new appointments are announced: 
Harold Lindsay Amoss (assistant in pathol- 
ogy), Clarence J. West (assistant in chem- 
istry), Wolfgang Ewald (fellow in experi- 
mental biology), Francis Richard Fraser (as- 
sistant resident physician and assistant in 
medicine), Frederic Moir Hanes (assistant 
resident physician and assistant in medicine). 
Dr. Epcar W. Oulve, professor of botany in 
the State College of South Dakota, and state 
botanist, has been appointed curator in the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, to have charge of 
the department of public instruction, and also 
