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Oberlin College Commencement Award Recipients and Speakers

This guide contains listings of Commencement speakers, including for the Baccalaureate ceremony. This also contains listings of Distinguished Award and Honorary Degree recipients.

Honorary Degree Recipients, 1901-1930

Honorary Degree Recipients, 1901-1930
Name Honorary Degree Year Career if Known
Edward Increase Bosworth, OC 1886 D.D 1901  
Elizabeth Watson Russell Lord A.M. 1901  
Charles Smith Mills D.D. 1901  
Albert Temple Swing, OC 1874 D.D. 1901  
Keren Osbourne Warner A.M. 1902  
Jesse Allen A.M. 1903  
George Whitfield Andrews, Cons. 1879 Mus.D. 1903  
Charlotte Emma Demuth Williams, Cons. 1902 Mus.M. 1903  
Merrick John Sloan A.M. 1904  
Lucy Anna Miner Bosworth, OC 1865 A.M. 1905  
Thomas Nixon Carver LL.D. 1905  
William James Dawson D.D. 1905  
John Thomas Gulick Sci.D. 1905  
Dudley Peter Allen, OC 1875 LL.D. 1908  
Wilbert Lee Anderson, OC 1879 D.D. 1908  
Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell, OC 1847 D.D. 1908  
Dan Freeman Bradley, OC 1882 D.D. 1908  
Howard Allen Bridgman D.D. 1908  
William Goodell Frost, OC 1876 LL.D. 1908  
Edward Thomson Harper, OC 1881 D.D. 1908  
Charles Willard Hayes, OC 1883 LL.D. 1908  
Samuel Walker McCall LL.D. 1908  
Shailer Mathews D.D. 1908  
Charles Walthall Morrison, Cons. 1880 A.M. 1908  
Carl Safford Patton, OC 1888 D.D. 1908  
John Raphael Rogers, OC 1875 A.M. 1908  
Frank Knight Sanders D.D. 1908  
Wesley Maier Stover, OC 1878 D.D. 1908  
Robert Walker Taylor LL.D. 1908  
William Lawrence Tenney, OC 1885 D.D. 1908  
Alie Terrell, OC 1888 A.M. 1908  
William Oxley Thompson LL.D. 1908  
John Martin Vincent, OC 1883 LL.D. 1908  
Charles Martin Hall, OC 1885 LL.D. 1910  
John Milton Metcalf, OC 1885 D.D. 1910  
Orville Wright LL.D. 1910  
Wilbur Wright LL.D. 1910  
Henry Frederick Cope A.M. 1911  
Edward Dickinson Litt.D. 1911  
Lawrence Locke Doggett, OC 1886 D.D. 1911  
Clark Barnaby Firestone, OC 1891 A.M. 1911  
Charles Sumner Howe LL.D. 1911  
John Hanson Thomas Main LL.D. 1911  
Robert Andrews Millikan, OC 1891 Sci.D. 1911  
Helen Clarissa Morgan, OC 1866 A.M. 1911  
Charles Sumner Nash D.D. 1911  
Wayne Bidwell Wheeler, OC 1894 A.M. 1911  
Frances Mary Beaumont, OC 1868 A.M. 1912  
Charles Reynolds Brown D.D. 1912  
Ernest DeWitt Burton D.D. 1912  
Kenyon Cox Litt.D. 1912  
Samuel Elijah Eastman, OC 1872 D.D. 1912  
Charles Roscoe Howland A.M. 1912  
George Clark Mosher A.M. 1912  
Anna Jane Wright, OC 1872 A.M. 1912  
George Whitfield Andrews, OC 1858 D.D. 1914  
Sidney Lewis Gulick D.D. 1914  
Alexander Hadden, OC 1873 LL.D. 1914  
Munson (Aldrich) Havens, enr. 1891-1892 A.M. 1914  
Maynard Mayo Metcalf, OC 1889 Sci.D. 1914  
Sarah Luella Miner, OC 1884 Litt.D. 1914  
Edwin Samuel Slater, OC 1883 A.M. 1914  
Howard Handel Carter, OC 1874 A.M. 1915  
John Rogers Clemmons, OC 1888 LL.D. 1915  
Caroline Temperance Stolp Johnson A.M. 1915  
Arthur Smith Kimball A.M. 1915  
Nathan Corning Kingsbury, enr. 1888-1891 A.M. 1915  
Charles Atwood Kofoid, OC 1890 Sci.D. 1915  
James Alexander Macdonald LL.D. 1915  
Jesse Macy LL.D. 1915  
George Durand Wilder, OC 1891 D.D. 1915  
Warren Hugh Wilson, OC 1890 D.D. 1915  
Katharine Lee Bates Litt.D. 1916  
Willard Livingstone Beard, OC 1891 D.D. 1916  
Frederick Brainerd Bridgman, OC 1893 D.D. 1916  
David Grandison Fairchild Sci.D. 1916  
Fraces Gulick Jewett, enr. 1880-1882 A.M. 1916  
Seabury Cone Mastick, OC 1891 A.M. 1916  
Henry Morgenthau LL.D. 1916  
Rubert Russa Moton LL.D. 1916  
Walter Rauschenbusch D.D. 1916  
Rovilius Rollin Rogers, OC 1876 A.M. 1916  
William Henry Ryder, OC 1866 D.D. 1916  
James Levi Barton LL.D. 1917  
Cass Gilbert LL.D. 1917  
Mary Louise Craffam, OC 1894 A.M. 1917  
Henry Joseph Haskell, OC 1896 Litt.D. 1917  
Herbert Clark Hoover LL.D. 1917  
Ferdinand Quincy Blanchard D.D. 1919  
Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge LL.D. 1919  
David Carroll Churchill, enr. 1891-18987 A.M. 1919  
William Cox Cochran, OC 1869 LL.D. 1919  
Aaron Augustus Healy LL.D. 1919  
Francis Ernest Regal, OC 1887 Litt.D. 1919  
William Craves Sharp LL.D. 1919  
James Harvey Teller, OC 1874 LL.D. 1919  
Wayne Bidwell Wheeler, OC 1894 LL.D. 1919  
Frank Pierrepont Craves LL.D. 1920  
William James Hutchins D.D. 1920  
Albert Emile LeRoy, OC 1901 A.M. 1920  
Elizabeth Keep Clark, OC 1869 A.M. 1921  
Paul Leaton Corbin, OC 1903 D.D. 1921  
Donald John Cowling LL.D. 1921  
Charles Hubert Farnsworth Mus.D. 1921  
Hamilton Holt LL.D. 1921  
Stephen Tsuneteru Miyagawa D.D. 1921  
Howard Hyde Russell, OC 1888 D.D. 1921  
William Dana Street D.D. 1921  
Albert Henry Currier D.D. 1922  
Vernon Lyman Kellogg Sci.D. 1922  
George Wilson Morgan, OC 1897 LL.D. 1922  
Charles Clayton Morrison D.D. 1922  
John Richard Nichols, OC 1879 D.D. 1922  
Frederick William Norwood D.D. 1922  
Robert Shaw Wilkinson, OC 1891 A.M. 1922  
Ernest Bourner Allen, OC 1903 D.D. 1923  
Newton Deihl Baker LL.D. 1923  
Edward Capps Litt.D. 1923  
Charles J. Chamberlain, OC 1888 Sci.D. 1923  
Henry Chandler Cowles, OC 1893 Sci.D. 1923  
Paul Drennan Cravath, OC 1882 LL.D. 1923  
Evan Walter Scott D.D. 1923  
Archer Hayes Shaw, OC 1897 A.M. 1923  
John MacAlpine Siddall, OC 1898 A.M. 1923  
Amos Alonzo Stagg A.M. 1923  
Robert Ernest Vinson LL.D. 1923  
Frances Theresa Densmore A.M. 1924  
Linda Anne Eastman A.M. 1924  
James Wilford Garner LL.D. 1924  
Harley Green Moorhead, OC 1899 LL.D. 1924  
Jesse Edward Moorland D.D. 1924  
Marion Edwards Park LL.D. 1924  
Theodore Merrill Shipherd D.D. 1924  
James Brady Smiley, OC 1889 A.M. 1924  
Roy Edwin Bowers, OC 1895 D.D. 1925  
Walter Thomas Dunmore, OC 1900 LL.D. 1925  
Irving Maurer D.D. 1925  
Cliffe Updegraffe Mirriam, enr. 1884-1887 A.M. 1925  
Grove Hiram Patterson, OC 1905 A.M. 1925  
Sollis Runnels A.M. 1925  
Meritt Starr, OC 1875 LL.D. 1925  
Frank Aydelotte Litt.D. 1926  
William Bricker Chamberlin, OC 1896 A.M. 1926  
Robert Nathaniel Dett, OC 1908 Mus.D. 1926  
Wynn Cowan Fanfield, OC 1907 D.D. 1926  
Hsiang Hsi Kung, OC 1906 LL.D. 1926  
Charles Lathrop Pack LL.D. 1926  
Arthur Rugh A.M. 1926  
Estelle Hynes Warner A.M. 1926  
William Drake Westervelt, OC 1871 D.D. 1926  
Edward Cooke Armstrong L.H.D. 1927  
Mark Lambert Bristol LL.D. 1927  
Edward Franklin Goin, OC 1901 D.D. 1927  
Charles Hall Grandgent L.H.D. 1927  
William Raymond Green, OC 1879 LL.D. 1927  
Bradford Leavitt D.D. 1927  
Timothy Tingfang Lew D.D. 1927  
William Albert Nitze L.H.D. 1927  
Alfred Grant Walton, OC 1911 D.D> 1927  
William Allen White Litt.D. 1927  
William Warner Bishop LL.D. 1928  
Fredrik Melius Christiansen Mus.D. 1928  
George Clinton Ward Sci.D. 1928  
Frederick George Donnan Sci.D. 1929  
Walter Sherman Gifford Sci.D. 1929  
Robert Maynard Hutchins, OC 1919 LL.D. 1929  
George Stanton Addams, OC 1890 LL.D. 1930  
Robert Henry Cowley, OC 1896 Sci.D. 1930  
Ernest Caleb Pye, OC 1909 D.D. 1930  
John Raphael Rogers, OC 1875 Sci.D. 1930  
William Elgin Wickenden LL.D. 1930