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SCIENCE 



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cation and profound sympathy with Yale senti- 

 ment. A believer in physical and mental develop- 

 ment; a scholar and a man. In choosing Dr. 

 Angell as president, Yale has gone back to her 

 earliest traditions, and, as was the case with her 

 first five presidents, has talsen a graduate of another 

 institution. It was not until 1766 that a Yale 

 graduate became president. Instead of having 

 been a Yale man, he has spent his life preparing 

 to be one. 



HONORARY DEGREES AT HARVARD UNIVER- 

 SITY 



Honorary degrees were conferred at the 

 commencement of Harvard University on 

 June 23 on the men of science given below. 

 In conferring these degrees President Lowell 

 spoke as follows: 



Master of Science 



Carlos Chagas, of Bio de Janeiro, Brazil. "Di- 

 rector of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, preeminent 

 in the knowledge of tropical medicine in Brazil, 

 discoverer of the nature and cause of the disease 

 that bears his name. ' ' 



Doctor of Science 



SiK Egbert Jones, of London, England. "The 

 orthopeedie surgeon who patiently and silently 

 showed the way to restore to usefulness and com- 

 fort the cripples of the war." 



George Ellert Hale, director of Mt. Wilson 

 Observatory at Pasadena, California. ' ' Astron- 

 omer famous in two worlds, whose spectrohelio- 

 graph has recorded light of the sun too strong 

 and of the stars too faint for human sight." 



Herbert Charles Moffitt, professor of med- 

 icine at the University of California. ' ' The 

 physician who built up for the University of Cali- 

 fornia the great medical school of the Pacific 

 Coast. ' ' 



Doctor of Laws 



James Eowland Angell, new president of Yale 

 University, Harvard A.M., '92. "A man tried in 

 many posts, whose reputation has grown with every 

 trial; worthy head of a university national in 

 its scope, great in its history, great in its ser- 

 vices to the nation, and greater still in its destiny. ' ' 



The degree of doctor of science has been 

 conferred by "Williams College on Dr. Henry 

 Baldwin Ward, head of the department of zo- 

 ology in the University of Illinois. 



Dartmouth College conferred at its recent 

 commencement its doctorate of science on Dr. 

 H. P. Talbot, professor of analytical chem- 

 istry at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Princeton Univeksity, as well as Yale, Har- 

 vard and Columbia, has conferred the doc- 

 torate of laws on Dr. James Eowland Angell, 

 president of Yale University. 



At the commencement exercises of the New 

 York State College for Teachers, Albany, on 

 June 20, the honorary degree of doctor of 

 pedagogy was conferred on Dr. C. Stuart 

 Gager, director of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. Dr. Gager delivered the address on 

 June 18 at the unveiling of the bronze tablet 

 in memory of students of the State College 

 who lost their lives in the war. 



The degree of doctor of laws was conferred 

 upon Dr. C. H. Mayo at the commencement ex- 

 ercises of iN'orthwestern University on June 

 15. 



Dr. W. J. Mayo delivered the Henry Jacob 

 Bigelow Medalist Address before the Boston 

 Surgical Society on June 6, at which time 

 he was awarded the Bigelow Gold Medal. The 

 Henry Jacob Bigelow trust fund was estab- 

 lished in 1916 by Dr. William Sturgis Bige- 

 low, of Boston, in memory of his father, the 

 income to be used by the Boston Surgical So- 

 ciety to award medals for valuable contribu- 

 tions to the advancement of surgery in this 

 country or in other countries. Dr. Mayo is 

 the first recipient of the medal. 



Dean Thomas F. Holgate, of ISTorthwestern 

 University, has been invited by the University 

 of Nanking, China, to spend his sabbatical 

 year at that institution, lecturing on mathe- 

 matical subjects and assisting in the general 

 organization of the university. He sails for 

 China on August 18 on the Empress of Asia. 



Dr. Mark F. Boyd, professor of bacteriology 

 and preventive medicine in the Medical De- 

 partment of the University of Texas since 

 lOlT, has resigned to enter the service of the 

 International Health Board of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation. 



