VIRGINIA CROCHERON GILDERSLEEVE

The Trustees of Rutgers College have directed that the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws be conferred on Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University, Professor of English, Dean of Barnard College, in recognition of her attainments in literature, her influence as a college teacher, her ability in executive work, and her conspicuous success in presiding over a great institution during its years of swift development and in giving without reserve to the higher education of women her noble powers of mind and spirit.

ROBERT ELLIOTT SPEER

The Trustees of Rutgers College have directed that the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws be conferred on Robert Elliott Speer, graduate of Princeton University, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, speaker of rare spirit and power, writer on religion and missions, guide of leaders and workers in statesmanlike policy, servant of the Church and the worldwide. Kingdom of God, an example in word and life to many friends, in recognition of his unswerving steadfastness in the faith once delivered, his unsparing devotion to the missionary cause, his gift of high incentive to young men in all our universities and colleges, his power in organizing great forces of the Church, and his executive position in a great denomination always sharing largely in the life of this College.

EDWIN ROBERT WALKER

The Trustees of Rutgers College have directed that the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws be conferred on Edwin Robert Walker, lawyer, jurist, Chancellor of the State of New Jersey, in recognition of his high ability in the practice of his profession, his fine judicial sense in considering questions of law and equity, his clearness and correctness in preparing decisions of far reaching

importance, and his service in the highest judicial position in the State of New Jersey, as Chancellor, presiding over the Court of Errors and Appeals.

JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE

The Trustees of Rutgers College have directed that the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws be conferred on Joseph Hodges Choate, graduate of Harvard, honorary graduate of many colleges and universities at home and abroad, lawyer, statesman, diplomatist, president of the New York Constitutional Convention in 1894, Ambassador of the United States to Great Britain 1899 to 1905, Ambassador and first delegate of the United States to the International Peace Conference at The Hague 1907, Fellow, Trustee, President of various clubs, societies, associations, in recognition of his great ability in the field of law and civic affairs, his high ideals of public life, his far reaching service in matters of municipal and national welfare, his ready leadership in the movement for world peace and for national security, and his sometime holding of the exalted office of Ambassador from the United States to the great nation whose King in our Colonial days gave the charter to this College.

W. L. F. C. VAN RAPPARD

The Trustees of Rutgers College have directed that the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws be conferred upon Chevalier W. L. F. C. van Rappard, trained in the law at Leyden University; sometime Secretary and Counsellor to the Royal Legations of the Netherlands at Brussels, Petrograd, Vienna, and Berlin; later Envoy of the Netherlands to Morocco, Africa; now Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary from the Netherlands to the United States of America; in recognition of his learning, his diplomatic skill and long continued fine service in international relations, and his exalted position as now representing at our seat of national government the land and the people of splendid life, spirit, and

tradition which one hundred and fifty years ago gave to this College its honored founders and secured its royal foundation.

President DEMAREST: It is requested that after the benediction the congregation remain standing while the academic procession leaves the Chapel. Any delegates having manuscript of greetings from the institutions which they represent may leave them with the Chief Marshal as they pass forward and out of the Chapel.

Benediction

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen.

At the close of the exercises the academic procession left the Chapel in the same order in which it entered and dispersed on the campus.

At one o'clock luncheon was again served at the Robert F. Ballantine Gymnasium where delegates, guests, and alumni gathered with the Trustees and Faculty to the number of perhaps twelve hundred.

PRESENTATION OF MEMORIAL TABLET BY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Queen's Building, 2:00 P. M.

On Saturday afternoon at two o'clock ceremonies were held by the New Jersey Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution on the Queen's Campus at the entrance to Queen's Building, appropriate to the presentation of a tablet by the Society to the College. Members of the Society and of the College and celebration visitors were assembled. The tablet was erected on the outer wall of the building, at the side of its front doorway, balancing the historical tablet on the other side of the doorway, erected three years ago by the graduating class. It is here reproduced. (See "List of Illustrations.")