Conferring of Honorary Degree 191 



I have been entrusted with another pleasing duty. 

 The Senatus has authorized me to perform a ceremony 

 of rare significance. 



St. Andrews, which honored the great-grandfather, 

 has voted to confer the same degree of LL.D. on Agnes 

 Irwin, Litt.D., Dean of Radclifife College, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, his well-known, esteemed and worthy 

 great-grandchild. I need scarcely say this action was 

 not prompted by the relationship; claims of heredity 

 could not justify the bestowal of an honor whose proud 

 distinction is that it ever has been and is to-day the 

 reward of personal achievement alone. Knowledge of 

 the work and character of the Dean of Radclifife is not 

 confined to her own country. Like her great grand- 

 father's name, hers also has sounded across the Atlantic. 

 Miss Irwin last summer, as I have reason to know, 

 found that she was neither unknown nor unappreciated 

 among the principals and professors of the Scottish 

 universities. Principal Donaldson of St. Andrews was 

 one of several principals with whom Miss Irwin spent 

 a week in Scotland. I can assure her he was fully aware 

 of her career when he suggested that she should be thus 

 honored, and St. Andrews's Senatus, very jealous always 

 of its honors, I am desired to tell you is well assured 

 its degree, in this instance, is abundantly deserved. 



How rare the combination of happy circumstances! 

 The Scottish University that first gave to Franklin his 



