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Show no mm PHI, LIE II COOLIE CAMBRIDGE. Mass., June 24. Commencement day - observances at Harvard university were brought to a close today with exorcises In Sever Quadrangle, In the Harvard yard, at which brief addresses were delivered by Genoral Pershing and Franklin K. Lane, former secretary of the Interior, both of whom wore awarded the de-groo de-groo of doctor of laws earlier 'In the day, and by Governor Coolidge. The governor, after saying that I uarvara una pcriormca a groat mission, mis-sion, said that the mission Of the commonwealth com-monwealth of Massachusetts had been "to lead the world into a larger liberty." lib-erty." The process adoptod in carrying carry-ing out that mission "began In the j cabin of the Mayflower, whore there was a renunciation, on the part of j those about to found the eommon-j eommon-j wealth, of their personal froedom, in order that they and the state which I they founedd might enjoy a larger I liberty, and that lesson there given was carried into the revolution. "Tho great issue of that conquest I was not tho sotting up of an inde-' pendent government. It was the es-; tabllshment of a constitution that pro-i vided for liberty under tho law, and it provided for It by a remission on fhe part of individuals of some of their smaller Ideas and smaller freedom." I Genoral Pushing said that ""we have ; como to lo J to Harvard as a unlver-J unlver-J ally and to Harvard men for the solu-j solu-j tion of most of our problems." At a meeting of the alumni assoeia-) assoeia-) tion. Eliot Wadsworth, joint chairman I of the endowment fund commltten. I announced that 17, 60S subscriptions , had been received, amounting to $lL-i i 157,7 6 1. Ho said that after the prosi-1 dentlal election the campaign would be resumed In an effort to reach tho . goal of $15,260,000. |