128 Seniors, 2889 Grad Students to Get degrees in Harvard's 315th Commencement

President Pusey will welcome 1128 Harvard seniors into the fellowship of educated men this morning at the University's 315th Commencement exercises in Tercentenary Theatre.

A crowd of 15,000 is expected to attend the traditional ceremony. The weather should be fair and cool, and it is unlikely that rain will fall on this Commencement, although showers are predicted for noon.

The ceremonies will begin at 9:20 a.m., as the procession marches from the Old Yard to Tercentenary Theatre, led by the University band and William G. Anderson '39, University Marshal. The Faculty and Others of the University will wear robes of crimson, blue, black, silver, and gold representing the many universities from which they come.

The marchers will follow the order of procession used since the days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the sheriffs of Middles and Suffolk Counties walking behind the University Marshal, followed by the President and Fellows, the Board of Overseers, Gov. John A. Volpe, and the Faculty and degree candidates.

Other dignitaries have to wait for lower places in the line of march. Nonentitiesties like United States Senators and Representatives in Congress are twentieth in line, following Trustees of the Charities of Edward Hopkins and the Loan Fund and the Ministers of the Six Towns of the Bay Colony.

When all the dignitaries have passed, the seniors and candidates for graduate degrees will follow them into the Theatre. Of the College's graduates, 67 per cent will receive honors: 181 cum laude in general studies, 309 cum laude in a field, 210 magna cum laude, 14 magna cum laude with highest honors, and 45 summa cum laude.

In addition, one Bachelor of Science and 33 Bachelors of Arts in Extension Studies will be conferred.

The Graduate School of Business Administration will award the most degrees after the College--666. The Law School will give 590; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 578; the Ed School, 389; Medicine, 141; Design, 79; Public Health, 76; Public Administration, 48; Divinity, 38; and Dental Medicine, 13.

Richardson Leads Alumni

The Chief Marshal, Elliet L. Richardson '41, will lead the alumni procession, with the oldest alumni present in the vanguard of the line of march. The alumni, class by class, march in review before the dignitaries on the steps of Widener.

Three students, John H. Erickson '66, of Cambridge, Radha K. Pillai, who is a candidate for the LL.M. degree, and William F. Weld '66, of Adams House and St. James, Long Island, N.Y., will deliver the addresses. Weld's will be the Latin Part.

Pusey will announce the names of the honorary degree winners--always the University's most cherished secret--near the end of the exercises. Honorary degrees are awarded to persons who have distinguished themselves for contributions to the world, the country, or Harvard.

It is reported that Ferdinand Marcos, Robert Lowell, and Averill Harriman, United States Ambassador-at-Large, will receive degrees. Harriman will probably be one of the speakers at the alumni meeting in the afternoon.

Parting of Ways

At noon the undergraduates and alumni go their separate ways, the seniors to the Houses, where they actually receive their diplomas from the Masters. President Pusey awards degrees only to the marshals of the class.

Graduates will assemble at 2 p.m. for the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association, which will be addressed by President Pusey and two of the honorary degree recipients. For the first time this year, Radcliffe alumnae from the classes of 1963-66, who received Harvard degrees, will be allowed to attend the alumni meeting.