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From Washington last week Vice President Charles Curtis crossed the Alleghenies to Huntington, W. Va., to deliver the 93rd commencement address of Marshall College, to receive an honorary LL.D. Although not a college graduate, the Vice President is no novice at accepting degrees (LL.D.'s, Washburn College, Baker University and Kansas State Teachers' College; all in Kansas). Nevertheless at Marshall he seemed to fumble his manuscript, looked nervously at the audience which packed the ornate cinema theatre where the ceremony was held. Confused, he turned and, momentarily mistaking the faculty on the platform behind him for the graduating class, began to address them: "You young people--"

After discovering his mistake, he regained his aplomb, swung into a good standard commencement speech, congratulating one & all on being privileged to live in the present age, urging Self-Reliance, Fair Play.

Other recipients of honorary degrees last week, not all of whom had to make speeches:

Cambridge University (England)

Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes LL.D.

Colgate (Hamilton, N. Y.)

President Newcomb Carlton of Western Union Telegraph Co LL.D.

President Jackson Eli Reynolds of First National Bank of New York LL.D.

De Paitw University (Indiana)

President Louis Bertram Hopkins of Wabash College, brother of Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth . ...LL.D.

Drake University (Iowa)

Philip Fox, astronomer, director of the new Adler Planetarium at Chicago (TIME, May 19) LL.D.

Duke University (Durham, N. C.)

Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur of U. S. Department of Interior LL.D.

Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon of Methodist Episcopal Church South, cofounder of Southern Methodist University LL.D.

Fordham

Rev. John Joseph Wynne, S.J., an editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia Litt.D.

Georgetown

Dr. William Gerry Morgan, president-elect of the American Medical Association LL.D.

Juniata College (Hunting, Pa.)

Henry Prather Fletcher, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy LL.D.

Knox College (Galesburg, 111.)

Milton J. Foreman, Chicago lawyer, onetime (March 1919-May 1919) national commander of the American Legion LL.D.

President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College Litt.D.

President Joseph Edward Otis of Central Illinois Trust Co. (Chicago) LL.D.

Silas Hardy Strawn, Chicago lawyer, one-time (1927-28) President of the American Bar Association LL.D.

Marshall

Leonard Asbury Busby, Chicago tractionman LL.D.

Vice President Herbert Fitzpatrick of Chesapeake & Ohio LL.D.

Mount Holyoke College

Edith M. Coon, physics professor and vice principal of the Women's Christian College at Madras, India Litt.D.

Dean Jane Louise Mesick of Simmons College (Boston) Litt.D.

Congresswoman Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of New York Litt.D.

New York University

Congresswoman Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of New York Master of Humane Litt.

Thornton Wilder, novelist (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) Litt.D.

Edwin Markham, poet (The Man With the Hoe: Lincoln) Litt.D.

Thomas Cochran, banker Dr. Letters

Dr. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress Dr. Letters

Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams LL.D.

Ohio State University

Orville Wright, air pioneer Sc.D.

Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.)

Actress Eva Le Gallienne Litt.D.

Stevens Institute of Technology

George Gibbs, graduate (1882), trustee, who electrified London's Underground Ry., designed Manhattan's first subway and the first steel railway cars Engr.D.

Rear Admiral Charles Wilson Dyson, U.S.N., D.S.C. chief designer of the Navy Bureau of Steam Engineering Engr.D.

President Conrad Newton Lauer of Philadelphia Gas Works Co Mech. Engr.

Nathan Sanford Osborne, physicist of the U. S. Bureau of Standards Sc.D.

Syracuse University

President Frank Pierrepont Graves of New York State University LL.D.

William Lyon Phelps, Yale English professor D. Sac. T.

Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York D.C.L.

Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise LL.D.

University of Maine

Nathan Clifford Grover, chief hydraulic engineer of the U. S. Geological Survey. . . .LL.D.

Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, retiring Chief of Naval Operations LL.D.

University of Miami

Glenn Hammond Curtiss, air pioneer...Sc.D.

President Ludd Myrl Spivey of Southern College (Lakeland, Fla.) LL.D.

University of Notre Dame

Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer on the New York Evening World, historian, Democratic keynoter in 1920 LL.D.

Rev. John J. Burke, onetime editor of the Catholic World LL.D.

Villanova College (Villanova, Pa.)

Frederick S. Peak, Finance Commissioner of Rhode Island LL.D.

Washington & Lee

President Homer Lenoir Ferguson of Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. ... Comm. Sc.D.

Arthur Graham Glasgow, engineer, brother of Author Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (They Stooped to Folly) Sc.D.

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