Kudos

Men and women, many of them long unaccustomed to the swish of academic robes around their legs, have been marching in mortarboard caps and silken gowns at recent commencement exercises of U. S. colleges and universities. They were the recipients of honorary degrees--kudos conferred because of their wealth, position or service to humanity. Below will be found the names of a number of the distinguished personages so honored during May and June, 1927. It is not necessarily implied that either the institutions or the individuals listed are the "most distinguished."

New York University Frank Billings Kellogg, Secretary of State William Lyon Phelps, Yale Professor Litt. D. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist D. Sc. Owen D. Young, lawyer, industrialist D. Commercial Sc. Joseph Deems Taylor, composer D. Music Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Col. Robert Wright Stewart, chairman Standard Oil Co. of Indiana L.L. D.

Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa) Herbert Clark Hoover, Secretary of Commerce,LL.D. Frederick A. Stock, director Chicago Symphony Orchestra D. Music

Princeton University Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist , D.Sc. Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher, D.D. Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U.S. L.L.D. General John Joseph Pershing LL.D.

Columbia University John Bassett Moore, jurist LL. Agnes Repplier, author Litt.D. Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) William Randolph Hearst LL.D.

Lafayette College William M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture L.L.D. Bishop James Henry Darlington of Harrisburg, Pa. LL. D.

Rutgers University Arthur Harry Moore, Governor of New Jersey LL. D.

Boston University Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts LL. D. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, editor Boston Herald Litt. D. Clarence Walker Barren, publisher, financial periodicals D. Commercial Sc.

Colgate University Gerard Swope, president General Electric Co. LL. D. Herbert Bayard Swope, executive editor New York World Litt. E

Tulane University (New Orleans) Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (Dorothy Dix), colyumist LL. D.

Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.) Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General LL. D.

Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) Daniel Willard, president Baltimore & Ohio R. R. L.L. D.

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) George D. Olds, retiring president Amherst College L.L.D.

Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.) Louis Wiley, business manager New York Times LL. D

Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y.) John Erskine, author, professor Columbia University Litt. D

Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.) Sir Robert Alexander Falconer, president

University of Toronto LL. D. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president Harvard University LL. D. Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher D. D.

William David Coolidge, scientist D. Sc. George H. Daley, sport editor New York World M A.

Syracuse University Henry Lewis Stimson, onetime Secretary of War LL. D. Daniel Willard, president Baltimore & Ohio R-R-D. Business Administration

Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pa.) Eugene Gifford Grace, president Bethlehem Steel Corp. D. Eng William David Coolidge, scientist D. Sc. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor D. Sc.

Dartmouth College Max Mason, president, University of Chicago LL. D.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Manhattan) Louis Marshall, lawyer D. Hebrew Litt. Wilberforce University (Negro) (Wilberforce, Ohio)

William Hale Thompson, Mayor of Chicago Simeon D. Fess, U. S. Senator from Ohio LL. D. Brown University

Mark Sullivan, political writer Litt D.Sc. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, inventor D.'Sc.

Alfred University (Alfred, N. Y.) Louis Wiley, business manager New York Tlmes Litt. D.

Tufts College (Medford, Mass.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, aviator M. Sc.

Fordham University George V McLaughlin, onetime Police Commissioner New York City LL. D

Pennsylvania Military College Curtis Dwighl Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy Ralph Modjeski, bridge builder D. Eng. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army O. Mil. Sci.

University of Pennsylvania Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, rare book collector D. Fine Arts Milton Bennett Medary Jr., president of American Institute of Architects D. Fine Arts

Yale University Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, chamber music patron M. A. William Buckhout Greeley, Chief

Forester M. A. William Allan Neilson, president Smith College Litt. D. Dwight Whitney Morrow, J. P. Morgan partner Willis van Devanter, Associate Justice, U. S.Supreme Court Evansville College (Evansville, Ind.) Earle E. Martin, onetime Scripps-Howard editor Litt. D.

Birmingham-Southern College (Birmingham, Ala.) Octavus Roy Cohen, writer Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wis.) James O'Donnell Bennett, journalist, Chicago Tribune M. A.

Norwich University (Northfield, Vt.) John E. Weeks, Governor of Vermont LL. D. Maj. Gen. John Archer Lejeune, Commandant of U. S. Marine Corps M. Military Sci.