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Show 1 HARVARD EXERCISES FOLLOW FORMS SET BY TRADITION Hj CAMBRIDGE. Mass., June 24. D Harvard University today """"H brought within its fellowship Gen- - """"j eral Pershing- and Franklin K. Hi Lane, former secretary of the ln- 1orl6r, upon each of whom Presl-""""H Presl-""""H dent A. Lawrence Lowell confer- """HI red the honorary degree of doctor """H of laws. The same degree was """"H conferred upon Robert S Brook- """"H ings, bnnker and president of the """"H board of trustees of Washington """HI university, St. Louis, and upon Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harv-"""H Harv-"""H ard law school. They were the only men to be so honored by H. Harvard this year. Hn The commencement cvcrciscs, """"B! in which 109G men received do- H" grecs in courso followed tradl- tlonal form. The sheriff of Mod-""""H Mod-""""H dlesex county, bearing his mace of office, called the meeting to order; Governor Coolidgc, like all the governors of the stale before """"H him, was present with his military """"H escort, and the deans, faculty . """"H members, presidents of other col- """"H leges and other scholars whose subjects and degrees were marked ! by their vari-colored academic robes, lent a lively touch to the Hi larger gathering of somber caps j H and gowns. |