KUDOS

Amherst College

Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Secretary of Defense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Citation: "You are facing with devoted skill and courage the crucial task of providing for the security of this nation and the survival of the free world--a task made formidable not only by the implacable hostility of our opponent, but also by the 'alarums and excursions' of an election year."

Bowdoln College

Marcus C. ("Marc") Connelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D Senator Margaret Chase Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D Kenneth C. M. Sills, retiring president of Bowdoin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D

Mrs. Kenneth C. M. Sills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D

Citation: "The inspiring influence" on her husband and "every member of the Bowdoin family with whom she has come in contact."

University of Cincinnati

Harlan H. Hatcher, president of the University of Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D

Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S drama critic, author of Kings and Desperate Men, Grand Right and Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D

Colgate University

Harry James Carman, former dean of the college at Columbia University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D

James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D.C.L.

Citation: "Concerned de rerum atque homini natura, you compel attention to the dynamic of the destructible atom on the one hand, and of the indestructible human spirit on the other. Owing allegiance to the truth . . . you have dedicated yourself as citizen, with almost Calvinistic zeal, to testing the American--and revolutionary--proposition that all men are created equal . . ."

Columbia University

Robert Moses, New York City Park Commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D

Wallace Stevens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D

Citation: "Practicing attorney in this city and vice president of an insurance company in Hartford, this successful man of affairs has written some of the most distinguished poetry of our day . . . one of the few men of our time who has been outstanding in his ability to unite the two worlds of imagination and fact . . ."

Dartmouth College

Sir Oliver S. Franks, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D

Oscar Hammerstein II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D

Hampden-Sydney College (Virginia)

Adlai Ewing Stevenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D

Citation: "Editor, learned lawyer, able executive, experienced statesman, public-spirited citizen, governor of the state of Illinois, great-grandson of the ninth president of Hampden-Sydney College ..."

Lafayette College

Norman Vincent Peale, minister of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church . . . D.D.

Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor department store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D Frank Pace Jr., Secretary of the Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D.Sc.

Citation: "We honor one who has turned our defense from the ancient fallacy of the 'mostest men close inside' to the modern theory of the strongest weapons in the hands of the ablest men . . ."

Henry Robinson Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE . . . . . . . . . LL.D

Citation: "When those acquiring such power . . . use it aright, we progress with unprecedented strides. When it is used wrongly, our very civilization is threatened. We are grateful that you have used this power unselfishly with an honest searching for truth, with a noble and a godly creed, and that you have stayed on the side of th: angels."

Norwich University

General of the Army Omar N. Bradley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .D.M.S (Doctor of Military Science)

Rutgers University

Robert Clarkson Clothier, president emeritus of the university. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .LL.D

Henry Townley Heald, chancellor of New York University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D

Millicent Mclntosh, dean of Barnard College. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D

Citation: "We recognize in you an educator whose first concern is that of the human equation. You are convinced . . . that the intelligent woman seeks to acquire a sound, meaningful education in order the better to serve as homemaker, career woman, community worker, or ideally, as you so strikingly exemplify--all three . . ."

St. Lawrence University (Canton, N.Y.)

.John Foster Dulles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D

Citation: "Architect of the 'Six Pillars of Peace'; for four decades now entrusted repeatedly . . . with international missions requiring the utmost in expertness . . .; his most recent triumph . . . the making of peace with Japan ... a 'peace of regeneration' . . . enviable man . . ."

St. Louis University

Ralph J. Bunche. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D

Syracuse University

Judge Harold R. Medina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D

Yale University

Charles Phelps Taft, former president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, candidate for governor of Ohio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D

Citation: "You have sought Christian solutions for economic and political problems. Recognizing that improvement of national politics must begin with local politics, you . . . helped to make your home city . . . the model for a thousand cities . . ."

Cambridge University (England)

Judge Learned Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D

Citation: "He is in fact by nature a philosopher . . . 'What,' he asks himself, 'are the foundations and postulates of democracy?' And he answers that they can be no less than the thesis . . . that the path towards the Good Life is to assure unimpeded utterance to every opinion and to face the discords of the Tower of Babel; all with the hope that in the end the dross will be somehow automatically strained out, and we shall be left with the golden nuggets of truth . . ."

Karl Taylor Compton, former president of M.I.T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . D.Sc.

Citation: "Still bent on securing our common defense from possible future dangers, he now devotes his powers to the incredible and horrific forces of atomic energy. We honor then a great scientist and engineer . . ."

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