Kudos

Men and women, many of them long unaccustomed to the swish of academic robes around their legs, have been marching in mortarboard caps at commencement exercises of U. S. colleges and universities. They are the recipients of honorary degrees--kudos conferred because of their position, service to humanity, or wealth.

Below are the names of a number of the distinguished personages so honored at the earlier commencements of 1928. It is not necessarily implied that either the institutions or the individuals listed are the "most distinguished."

Columbia University

Willa Gather, novelist Litt. D.

Paul Louis Charles Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S. LL. D. Antonio Barcelo, senator from Porto Rico

LL. D.

Antoino Sanchez de Bustamante, president of

Pan-American Conference LL. D.

Albert Charles Fox, president of St. Xavier

College LL. D.

Murray Bartlett, president of Hobart College

D. Sac. Theol.

William Wallace Campbell, president of University of California D. Sc.

New York University

Charles Augustus Lindbergh M. Aero.*

Charles Evans Hughes D. Civil Lawf

Cass Gilbert, architect D. Fine Arts

Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. Mus. D.

Daniel Guggenheim, capitalist, aviation benefactor D. Com. Sc.

Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S. LL. D. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Labrador missionary Litt. D. John Johnston, director of the department of Research and Technology of U. S. Steel Corp. D. Sc.

Loyola University (Chicago)

Thomas James Walsh, senator from Montana

LL. D. Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.)

Sau-ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the U. S. LL. D.

Lombard College (Galesburg, ILL.)

Jane Addams, Hull House founder LL. D. Frederick A. Stock, director of Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mus. D. Wittenburg College (Springfield, Ohio)

Martha Ostenso, novelist M. A.

Carl Emil Seashore, dean of Graduate School of University of Iowa LL. D.

De Pauw University (Greencastle, Ind.)

Frederick Austin Ogg, historian ("frontier" school) LL. D.

Pennsylvania Military College

Charles Evans Hughes LL. D.

Washington and Jefferson College

Ulysses S. Grant-Smith, U. S. Minister to Uruguay LL. D.

Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa)

James John Davis, Secretary of Labor LL. D.

Villanova College (Philadelphia)

Henry Markham Jr., Oklahoma oilman*

LL. D.

Howard University (Negro, Washington, D. C.) Moorfield Storey, president of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People LL. D.

University of Maine

Ralph Owen Brewster, governor of Maine

LL. D.

Marshall Buckland Downing, general manager of New York Telephone Co. D. Eng.

Duke University (Durham, N. C.)

Burton Jesse Hendrick, author of The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page LL. D.

E. Stanley Jones, author of The Christ of the Indian Road D. D.

Francis Pendleton Gaines, president of Wake Forest College Litt. D.

Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pa.)

John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Education LL. D.

Rutgers University

Daniel Plooij, pastor of Reformed Churches in the Netherlands D. Sac. Theol.

John Garibaldi Sargent, U. S. Attorney General LL. D.

Harvey Nathaniel Davis, president-elect of Stevens Institute of Technology LL. D.

Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories D. Sc.

Colgate University

William Beebe, explorer, author D. Sc.

James Howell Post, president of National

Sugar Refining Co. LL. D.

Clarence Mott Woolley, chairman of American

Radiator Co. LL. D.

William Travers Jerome, Manhattan lawyer

LL. D. Georgetown University

Rear Admiral William Shepherd Benson (retired) LL. D. Rt. Rev. Thomas Joseph Shahan, onetime rector of Catholic University of America

J. U. D./- St. Xavier College (Cincinnati)

Rear Admiral William Shepherd Benson (retired) ^ LL. D. George Dent Crabbs, president of Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co. LL. D. John E. Greiwe, famed physician LL. D.

Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.)

Avery A. Shaw, president of Denison University LL. D. S. Calvin Smith, specialist in heart diseases

D. Sc.

University of Iowa

Thomas Huston Macbride, president emeritus

of University of Iowa*Hanover College (Hanover, Ind.)

August Karl Reischauer, missionary in Japan, authority on Buddhism LL. D.

Haverford College (Haverford, Pa.)

Henry Longstreet Taylor, president of National Tuberculosis Association LL. D. Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, Pa.)

Henry Wolf Bukle, general attorney of Pennsylvania Railroad LL. D.

*Master of Aeronautics is a new degree. Col. Lindbergh arrived by air to receive it a day later than the others at New York University.

/-In bestowing this degree on Mr. Hughes, Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown said: "In your youthful spirit and the direct sincerity of your diplomacy you are another Lindbergh with feet on the ground." *Not to be confused with that other Oklahoma oilman, E. W. Marland, who put up the money for a huge statue of The Pioneer Woman (TIME, Jan. 2).

/-Doctor of Civil and Canon Laws. *Iowa gave only one honorary degree.