BOYDEN, ROLAND WILLIAM

lawyer and diplomat; b. Beverly, Ma . He graduated in 1885 from Harvard from which institution he received the degree of LL.B. (1888). In the latter year he was admitted to the bar. In 1921 he was appointed by President Harding as American Observer on the Reparations Commi ion. In that capacity he transmitted many important Shes to the U.S. State Department. ile his functions were supposed to be confined to the observation merely and he had no vote in the matter of reparations, he created something of a sensation in Jan., 1923, on the eve of the French advance into the Ruhr, by making a speech before the Commi ion condemning some features of the Treaty of Versailles and advocating a more lenient policy toward the German Government.