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He received the Harvard honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1860, and that of Doctor of Laws in 1866, at the hundredth anniversary of the college, when he was the only literary man so decorated among a number of men of science, a fact which attracted some notice. He was made a trustee of Brown Uni- versity (Providence, E.I.) in 1869. He was chosen a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1863, and was borne upon its rolls for three years, but never accepted the office or even replie...d to the invitation, for some reason yet unexplained, so that his name was dropped. He declined membership of the Loyal Legion, a society of officers who had served on the Union side in the Civil War, and had a limited number of civilian members ; but this he refused as an organisation inconsistent with the principles of the Society of Friends. Whittier's seventieth birthday was Celebrated more profusely than had happened to any American author before ; and more so than was at first wholly congenial to his modest nature.
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