1 62 The University of Pennsylvania 



systematic theology at Aberdeen. Welcome to the privi- 

 leges of a son of the University of Pennsylvania. From 

 Aberdeen came Pennsylvania's first Provost; from Edin- 

 burgh, our Medical School — whose emblem has always 

 been the thistle. Sincere teacher of the knowledge of 

 things divine; comprehended briefly in that undying 

 question: " What does the Lord require but to do justly 

 and to love mercy and to walk humbly." — LL.D. 



Hendrik AntOON Lorentz — Facile Princeps 

 amongst the physicists of Holland, and peer of any of 

 his scientific associates upon the continent of Europe. 

 Noted especially for his work on mathematical physics 

 and upon the " Electron Theory." Professor of mathe- 

 matical physics in the University of Leiden. Represen- 

 tative of the Batavian Society for Experimental Philos- 

 ophy, of Rotterdam, of which Franklin himself was a 

 member. — LL.D. 



Alois Brandl — Professor of philology in the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin. Representative of the University of 

 Berlin, and of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Shakes- 

 perean scholar. Student of " the nature and history of 

 man as disclosed by speech." His personality as charm- 

 ing as his scholarship. — LL.D. 



Sir George Howard Darwin — Distinguished son of 

 an illustrious father. Astronomer and mathematician. 

 Plumian Professor of astronomy and experimental phi- 



