University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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BOOK II. CLASSES We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. Page Twenty-six

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Page Twenty-five Doctor Carrie Cnapman Caft D D A D |i i|[F=n][ COMMEMORABLE event of the Thirty-first Commencement was the conferrmg of the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt by the University of Wyommg. Wyommg being the first state to grant the right of suffrage to women, it was pecuharly fitting that its State University, departing from an historic pohcy of I I I conservatism, should bestow its first honorary degree in recognition of services of one who had done so much for the ultimate success of that cause. In the words of the President, who bestowed the degree as a representative of the faculty, Nothing could be more appropriate than that the first honorary degree should be conferred for services so in harmony with that for which the state has always stood.

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