Excerpt from The Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 3: July, 1902 By force of just and liberal thinking, the greatest diplomatist now living. That was President Eliot's characterization of Secretary John Hay in awarding him in be half of, Harvard the degree of doctor of laws last month, a degree already bestowed upon him by Brown, Western Reserve, Princeton, Dartmouth and Yale. We are all glad to join with Harvard in honoring Mr. Hay, whose statesmanship has given America a new rank among the nations by virtue of energy, sincerity and brotherly love. Any reader of the monthly who has a spare copy of the April, 1902, issue would greatly accommodate the publishers by mailing it to them. The regular price of the magazine will be promptly forwarded on receipt of it, provided the inside sheets are in good condition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.