Kudos

When Commencement season arrived last year university trustees with honorary degrees to pass around turned instinctively to the new President's Cabinet. They were stopped at the top because Secretary of State Hull was away at the London Economic Conference and universities rarely bestow their kudos in absentia. So Syracuse led off by making Secretary of the Treasury Woodin a Doctor of Music. Secretary of War Dern got an LL. D. from Pennsylvania Military College. Postmaster General Farley became, by grace of the University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington & Jefferson gave Secretary of the Interior Ickes an LL. D., as did Lake Forest. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace received an LL. D. from Drake. National University (Washington, D. C.) bestowed an LL. D. on Secretary of Commerce Roper and Bryant & Stratton (Baltimore, Md.) acclaimed him a Master of Business Administration. Secretary of Labor Perkins ended the list with LL. D.'s from Goucher and Wisconsin. Unhonored: State's Hull, Justice's Cummings, Navy's Swanson.

This year the nation's universities are more than making up to Secretary Hull for his trip to London. By last week, with four LL. D.'s awarded or promised, he was well in the lead for the 1934 title of champion kudos collector not only of the Cabinet but of the nation. Notre Dame honored him last week, Columbia and George Washington were to do so this week, William & Mary next week. Attorney General Cummings broke into the scoring column out of season (last February) with an LL. D. from Rollins, got another last fortnight from Oglethorpe. Secretary Ickes got his third LL. D. this week from Berea. University of Arizona made Secretary of Agriculture Wallace a Doctor of Science last week and Rollins made Secretary Roper a Doctor of Humane Letters. Alabama College (Montevallo) gave Secretary Swanson from remaining the Cabinet's only non-doctor was new Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau.

Other kudos of the fortnight: Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland) President Arthur Cutts Willard of University of Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . D.E. Columbia University (New York) Professor Emeritus Ernest William Brown of Yale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC. D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC.D. Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. President Harold Willis Dods of Princeton . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Surrogate James Aloysius Foley of New York Country . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Economist Calvin Bryce Hoover of Duke University . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. British Economist John Maynard Keynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Russell Henry Stafford of Boston's Old South Church . . . . . . . . . . S.T.D Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) U.S. Commissioner-elect of Education John Ward Studebaker. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Board Chairman Walter J. Cummings of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. New Jersey College for Women (New Brunswick, N.J.) Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney . . . . . . . . . . . D.F.A Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) Dean Luther Allen Weigle of Yale Divinity School . . . . . . . . . S.T.D. Roanoke College (Salem, Va.) Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt. D. President Constance Warren of Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ED. D. Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.) Robert Woods Bliss, U. S. Ambassador to the Argentine . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Brain Surgeon Harvey Cushing . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. Federal Coordinate of Transportation Joseph B. Eastman . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Livingston Farrand of Cornell . . . . . . . . . . LL. D. President-elect Dixon Ryan Fox . . . . . . L.H.D. Eugene Meyer, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve Board . . . . . . . . LL.D. Senator Cameron Morrison of North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research . . . Sc.D. University of Detroit (Detroit, Mich.) Vice President Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors . . . . . . . . . D.E. University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.) Chief Justice Ernest Sneed Gantt of Missouri's Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Astronomer Frederidck Henry Seares of Mt. Wilson Observatory . . . . . . . LL.D. University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.) Executive Director Frank C. Walker of the National Emergency Council. LL. D. University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.) Commissioner of Reclamation Elwood Mead . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) Walter Lippmann . . . . . . . . . .LL.D.

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