More Kudos

Commencement season nearly spent, U. S. colleges and universities last week gave honorary degrees to, among many others, these:

Amherst College Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner LL.D. Charles Falconer Stearns, judge (Supreme Court of R. I.) LL.D. Ralph Earle, college president (Worcester Polytechnic) LL.D.

Boston University Frederick Neal Dow, banker LL.D. Harry Emerson Fosdick, clergyman (Baptist) LL.D. Francis John McConnell, bishop (Methodist Episcopal) LL.D. Albert Enoch Pillsbury, lawyer LL.D. Jacobo Varela, Uruguayan Ambassador LL.D. Frank Alexander Home, banker LL.D.

Dartmouth College Frank Pierce Carpenter, paper manufacturer LL.D. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York LL.D. Harry Bates Thayer, onetime (1919--25) President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co LL.D. Harvey Gushing, surgeon Litt.D. Charles W. Tobey, Governor of New Hampshire A.M. Glasgow University (Scotland) Marie Curie, scientist LL.D. Fritz Kreisler, violinist LL.D.

Harvard University Charles Francis Adams LL.D. Frank Billings Kellogg LL.D. Sergei Koussevitzky, orchestra conductor (Boston Symphony) LL.D. Robert Russa Moton, college principal (Tuskegee Institute) A.M. Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer D.Sc.

Kenyan College (Gambler, Ohio) Albert Henry Wiggin, board chairman (Chase National)* LL.D.

Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) Robert Maynard Hutchins, university president-elect (University of Chicago) LL.D. Walter Sherman Gifford, president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. . D.Sc.

Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, Ohio) Myers Young Cooper, Governor of Ohio LL.D.

Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) Frank Billings Kellogg D.C.L. Alanson Bigelow Houghton LL.D. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to U. S LL.D. George Payne McLean, onetime (1911-29) U. S. Senator from Connecticut LL.D. Andrew William Mellon LL.D.

Universita Karlova (Prague, Czechoslovakia) Fuad I, King of Egypt PH.D.

University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.) Herbert Edwin Hawkes, university dean (Columbia) LL.D. Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner LL.D. Lewis Hill Weed, medical school dean (Johns Hopkins) D.Sc.

Reunion

Most prominent of U. S. college graduates who did not attend their June college reunions was President Hoover. Another absentee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Among the most distinguished who did attend were Citizen Calvin Coolidge, who marched in the Amherst commencement parade last week, and Banker John Pierpoint Morgan who, last week, returned to Harvard for the 40th reunion of his class.

Banker Morgan, who last fortnight was given a Princeton honorary LL.D., arrived at Cambridge apparently alone. In the academic procession he marched at the side of Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery who was graduated from Harvard two years after him (1891). He lunched with President Abbott Lawrence Lowell at a private table in the "yard." Following the precedent established when he recently arrived on the Mauretania (TIME, June 17) he made no objections to newsphotographers. One camera caught him munching a bun. Banker Morgan, eschewing academic robes or class reunion costume, wore a black cutaway, grey trousers, panama hat. He left early to board his huge black yacht, the Corsair, to go and inspect his new 343-foot yacht, abuilding at Bath, Maine.

The distinction of having Banker Morgan among its visitors mitigated and contrasted with the ignominy of another Harvard occurrence last week. The Senior class had elected one Edward Fuller Fitzhugh Jr., of Boise, Idaho, to write the Baccalaureate hymn. That was a sad selection for Harvard. Poet Fitzhugh wrote four quatrains of lofty, Harvardian sentiment to be sung to the tune of "Ancient of Days." The lines were published. Not until then, last week, was it discovered that the first letters of the lines in each quatrain spelled a four-letter word. The first two words were the same, an unprintable obscenity. The last two words were a compound, specific form of the first, even more unprintable. All four words formed an obscene ejaculation evidently aimed at the lofty sentiments expressed in all college hymns. Amid guffaws from like-minded undergraduates and painful embarrassment for decent Harvardmen, Author Fitzhugh was expelled. Said he: "I guess I never did grow up." At the office of the Boston Herald, copies of the paper containing the poem sold for 50-c-.

*Named for Salmon Portland Chase, Lincolnian Secretary of the Treasury (1861--64) whose uncle, Protestant Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase, founded Kenyon College in 1824.