| Show Harvard College BOSTON June 27This morning Governor Gov-ernor Ame and staff escortd by the National Lancers proceeded toHarvard College to attend the commencement exercises They were recieved by President Pres-ident Elliott and escorted to Sanders Theatre where the literary exercises took place After prayer by Re F G Peabody the exercises were cnriird out by the graduating class The following honorary titles were conferred Master of arts Honoris Cassa Edward Burgess Bur-gess William Endicott Jr and Rev John W Chadwic doctor of laws Charles Stebbins Fairchild Joseph H Choate and Prof W Bibbs doctor of divinity A Bud Abbott Livermore nrnsident of the Webville Seminary Fairchild is the present Secretary of the Treasury and E ward Burgess known to the public as the desitjner of the Volunteer I Vol-unteer Purltnn and Mayflower BOSTON June 27At the annual meeting Of the Harvard Alumni Association Asso-ciation the following officers were elected president William C Endi cott of Salem vicepresidents Manning Mann-ing F Force of Cincinnati Henry J Bigelow of Bostou Horace Davis of San Francisco John Quincy Adams of Quincy Leverett Saltonstall of Newton New-ton CharlesE Norton of Cambridge Robert T Lincoln of Chicago Henry S Huidekoper of Philadelphia Edmund Wetmore of New York and Charles C Beaman of New York The Secretary of tho Treasury Fairchild was introduced In the course of his remarks he touched upon the civil service reform saying his liking for it was but the outgrowth of the ideas of fair play and decency that he imbibed at college Civil service was but a means to good government and to his mind the more offices that could be taken out of politics the better |
