The college year ended, differing hardly at all from other years, for customs change but slowly in the educational world,* yet marked at individual institutions by episodes that distinguished the 1925 commencement exercises from all others.
At Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) Melville E. Stone, onetime General Manager of the Associated Press, was made a Doctor of Laws (as was Abraham Lincoln before him) on the scene where, 80 years ago, his father and mother met for the first time as students.
At Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.) an LL.D. was conferred upon Sir Esme...
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