As this was the first time that a New England university had conferred an honorary degree upon a Negro, it was the occasion of much newspaper comment throughout the country.
Washington, My Dear Sir: Harvard University desired to confer on you at the approaching Commencement an honorary degree; but it is our custom to confer degrees only on gentlemen who are present.
It has been mentioned that Mr. Washington is the first of his race to receive an honorary degree from a New England university.
Another Boston paper said:-- It is Harvard which, first among New England colleges, confers an honorary degree upon a black man.
When one sees with what punctilious assiduity every mark and brand of tradesman and tradesmen's interests receives recognition nowadays, one turns with anxiety to the Cambridge list of honorary degree men.
It is different altogether when to create an honorary degree list Mr. Anybody and Mr. Nobody are called upon to step up.
There was rumour of an honorary degree before I saw him in the flesh, at the high table of my college, a guest of the Provost.
I speculate sometimes whether the University was aware of his testamentary dispositions before it conferred on him an honorary degree.
Girdelstone gave him a dinner, and Monteagle and I persuaded the Senate to confer on him an honorary degree.
I told this story to my fellow passengers in the cabin; not only because I am proud of my honorary degree, but to prove my belief in the fact that most human beings respond to love, and also that it is a specific for many ills.
Duc d'Aumale's) name for an Honorary Degree at the next Encaenia.
For Reeve the principal social event of the year, or rather the one most out of ordinary course, was the conferring an honorary degree on the Duc d'Aumale by the University of Oxford.
Dear Mr. Reeve,--It is my pleasing duty to inform you that the University of Oxford wish to express their sense of your literary services and attainments by conferring on you an honorary degree at the approaching commemoration.
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