Monday, Jun. 27, 1955
Kudos
University of California
Harold C. Urey, scientist . . . . LL.D.
City College, New York
Dr. Jonas Salk, who received the ninth honorary degree given by the college since 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.
Dartmouth College
Rene d'Harnoncourt, director of Museum of Modern Art . . . . . L.H.D.
Lane Dwinell, governor of New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M.A.
Robert Frost, poet . . . . . . . LL.D.
Citation: "A teacher who has always sort of known that the hardest part of getting wise is being always just a little otherwise."
Joseph William Martin Jr., House minority leader . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.
Henry Merritt Wriston, retiring president of Brown University . . LL.D.
Harvard University
Laird Bell, Chicago lawyer . . . LL.D.
Luis Munoz-Marin, governor of Puerto Rico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times . . . . . . LL.D.
Archibald MacLeish, poet . . . Litt.D.
George B. Kistiakowsky, chemist, expert on explosives . . . . . . . Sc.D.
Andrew Wyeth, painter . . . . Arts D.
Konrad Adenauer . . . . . . . . LL.D.
Citation: "Resolute statesman of German reconstruction, energetic champion of peace and unity in Europe, he has restored his country to a place among the nations."
James Bryant Conant . . . . . . LL.D.
Citation: "For 20 years in war and peace, Harvard's tireless and courageous leader, now this country's ambassador to a nation of universities."
Helen Adams Keller, first woman ever to receive an honorary degree from Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.
Citation: "From a still, dark world she has brought us light and sound; our lives are richer for her faith and her example."
Van Wyck Brooks . . . . . . . Litt.D.
New York University
Julius Ochs Adler, first vice president of the New York Times . . . LL.D.
David Dodds Henry, president-elect of the University of Illinois . . L.H.D.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Repre-, sentative to the U.N. . . . . LL.D.
Citation: "Squarejawed in the conviction that America's only hope for survival is in unified effort for peace backed by firm international agreement to combat aggression, he graces the launching platform of the U.N. as a self-guided missile with a homing instinct, primed for a global trajectory, and well laden not with the seed of destruction but the hope of humanity."
Walter Bedell Smith . . . . . . LL.D.
Citation: "A mighty smith was he in the forging of Allied victory; he has since been equally implacable as a scourge of forces that tend to nullify the gains of that victory."
Princeton University
Henry Allen Moe, secretary-general of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . . . . . . . Litt.D.
Gaylord Harnwell, president of the University of Pennsylvania . . . LL.D.
Katharine Elizabeth McBride, president of Bryn Mawr College . . . . LL.D.
John Marshall Harlan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court . . . . LL.D.
Citation: "The notable dissents of the first Justice Harlan have become the majority opinions of today. The character of the second Justice Harlan, equally bised on the larger cause of justice, assures us that his opinions will point steadfastly to a better world for us and for our children."
Yale University
Detlev Bronk of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research . . Sc.D.
George Magoffin Humphrey, Secretary of the. Treasury . . . . . . . . LL.D.
John Howard Benson, artist . . . M.A.
Wallace Stevens, poet . . . . . Litt.D.
Citation: "The poet's ancient title 'maker' finds its meaning in your work which celebrates the power of the imagination to make and remake our everyday world and give it perspective and order."
Douglas Stuart Moore . . . . Mus.D.
Citation: "Your music springs naturally from our soil, and you have given wings of melody to the legends of our people."
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