Robert McCormick with Others- Cap and Gown

(Original Caption) Jerome Barnum, President of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, lays a wreath at the boulder on the Colby College campus, commemorating Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a Colby alumnus who was killed by a mob nearly a century ago for persisting in publishing his editorial convictions. The exercises were held at Waterville, ME, on May 18, when newspaper men from different states were in attendance. From left to right: President Franklin W. Johnson of Colby College; Jerome D. Barnum, Syracuse Post-Standard; Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune; Hon. Bainbridge Colby, trustee of Colby College; Howard Davis, New York Herald Tribune; and George Otis Smith, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Vice-President of Colby College.