Kudos

Who is likely to get an honorary degree? To cast some light on this vexing academic question Datus C. Smith Jr., able young editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, last week compiled for Forum & Century a list of U. S. kudos champions and a list of outstanding U. S. citizens as yet unhonored. Then he invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Champions were Nicholas Murray Butler (34), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27), the New York Times's speechmaker, John Huston Finley (27). Dorothy Dix is an honorary Doctor of Letters and Marion Sayle Taylor (the "Voice of Experience") an honorary Doctor of Laws.

Never kudized have been Frank Lloyd Wright, Felix Frankfurter, George Soule, H. L. Mencken, Heywood Broun, Carl Van Doren. Members of the U. S. Senate might be considered prime material, but among unhonored Senators are Nebraska's George Norris, Wisconsin's Robert Marion La Follette Jr., Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis got his last honorary degree in 1891.

Kudos of the week:

Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper .......... M.A. President-elect Roswell Gray Ham of Mount Holyoke College ........... LL.D

Boston University (Boston, Mass.) Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman. . Mus.D.

Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.) Headmaster Frank Learoyd Boyden of Deerfield Academy ............ L.H.D. President Robert Devore Leigh of Bennington College ............. LL.D.

Brown University (Providence, R. I.) Cordell Hull ..................... LL.D.

Chicago Musical College (Chicago) Mischa Elman ................... Mus.D.

Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.) President Samuel Sloan Colt of Manhattan's Banker's Trust .......... LL.D. President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp .......................... LL.D.

Dartmouth College (Hanover, N. H.) President John Stewart Bryan of the College of William & Mary ........ LL.D. Carter Glass ...................... LL.D. Historian Allan Nevins.... ..Litt.D.

Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa)

Research Director Oliver Ellsworth Buckley of Bell Telephone Laboratories D.Sc.

Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) President Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins University LL.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania. .. .LL.D. President William Edwin Hall of the Boys' Club Federation of America. . .M.A. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago LL.D. President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories D.Sc. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison. .. .Litt.D. Historian George Macauley Trevelyan.Litt.D.

Indiana University (Bloomington) General Counsel Herman Oliphant of the U. S. Treasury Department LL.D.

Mills College (Oakland, Calif.) Jules Romains LL.D.

Princeton University (Princeton, N. J.) Philosopher Ralph Barton Perry.... Litt.D. Principal Lewis Perry of Phillips Exeter Academy Litt.D. Mayor Russell Wilson of Cincinnati. .. M.A.

University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.)

Walter Lippmann LL.D.

Tufts College (Medford, Mass.)

President-elect Robert Ernest Doherty of Carnegie Institute of Technology .LL.D. Dorothy Thompson Litt.D.

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Walter P. Chrysler D.Eng. Director Herbert Eustis Winlock of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art Litt.D.

Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) Dramacritic Gilbert Wolf Gabriel M.A. Ex-Senator George Wharton Pepper. . .LL.D.

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