Monday, Jun. 18, 1951

Kudos

Once again the time had come for U.S. colleges and universities to honor the nation's notables. In solemn ceremonies on scores of U.S. campuses last week, statesmen, artists, writers, scholars and soldiers were one by one receiving the scrolls and hoods of brand-new honorary degrees.

As usual, the statesmen were prominently represented. Governor Earl Warren of California won a Doctorate of Political Science from the University of Alaska. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois got LL.D.s from both Ohio's Oberlin College and Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Western Reserve in Ohio honored two Senators: Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Ohio's Robert A. Taft.

The college presidents had not forgotten each other. Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton of Washington University, St. Louis, got an LL.D. from Baylor University in Texas, and Harold Stassen of the University of Pennsylvania got one from Dickinson College, Pa. Wake Forest College, N.C. honored two traditional football rivals: the University of North Carolina's President Gordon Gray and Duke University's President Arthur Hollis Edens.

But in 1951, the most conspicuous degree-winners were the nation's bishops. By last week, there had been at least eight. Among them: Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, a D.D. from the University of Rochester; Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary bishop of New York, a Litt.D. from Fordham University; Bishop Glenn Randall Phillips of Denver, an LL.D. from the University of Southern California.

Other kudos last week:

>To the U.N.'s Ralph J. Bunche, LL.D.s from Morgan State College (for Negroes) in Maryland, and Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College.

>To Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent of Canada and Novelist John Dos Passos, an LL.D. and a D.H.L. from Northwestern University.

>To Bandleader Fred Waring and Poetess Marianne Moore, a Mus.D. and a Litt.D. from the University of Rochester.

>To Manhattan's retiring Judge Learned Hand, an LL.D. from New York University.

>To Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews and Philosopher Jacques Maritain, LL.D.s from Notre Dame.

>To Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey, a D.Sc.; to Sociologist Robert M. Maclver, an L.H.D.; to Political Scientist Charles E. Merriam, a Litt.D.; to Psychologist Edward C. Tolman, a D.Sc.; to Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Percy W. Bridgman, a D.Sc.; to Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, a D.Sc.; to Philosopher John Dewey, a Litt.D.--all from Yale University.

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