THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS 



The Honorary Degree of LL.D. 



[Conferred in Witherspoon Hall, Tuesday, April 17] 



The candidate, Miss Agnes Irwin, Dean of Radclifife 

 College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, was presented by 

 S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., LL.D., and Horace Howard 

 Furncss, Litt.D. (Cantab.), and the degree was con- 

 ferred in the following words by 



Andrew Carnegie, LL.D., 

 Lord Rector 



Appearing before you in my official capacity as Lord 

 Rector of St. Andrews, the oldest of Scottish Univer- 

 sities, I deem it peculiarly fitting that the occasion is 

 one in commemoration of Dr. Franklin, for her rela- 

 tions to that eminent man are of the most pleasing 

 character. She it was who in 1759 first made him a 

 Doctor. 



Sir, I am charged to assure you and this assembly 

 that she feels to-day that upon no similar act has she 

 reason more profoundly to congratulate herself than 

 upon that of the Faculty of that day who discerned the 

 worth of Dr. Franklin and bestowed upon him this 



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