Monday, Jun. 24, 1957
Kudos
Adelphi College
Mark Van Doren . . L.H.D.
Citation: "We honor you today as one who explores the upper planes of man's mind, and yet who remains of the world and can communicate the beauty of life's gifts to those whom you touch."
Theodore Houser, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. LL.D.
William S. Paley, chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System LL.D.
Carlos P. Romulo LL.D.
Ogden Rogers Reid, president and editor of the N.Y. Herald Tribune. LL.D.
Citation: "You asserted that without a free press, there can be neither freedom nor free government. Further, that newspapers . . . must help make history and not just write it."
Carleton College
Marchette Chute, literary historian Litt.D.
Colgate University
William J.' Brennan Jr., associate justice of the Supreme Court D.C.L.
Harold W. Dodds, retiring president of Princeton University L.H.D.
Dartmouth College
Alfred Maximilian Gruenther.
LL.D.
Citation: "One of the minor mysteries of modern military history is how even West Point could keep a lieutenant named Maximilian teaching mathematics for eight years only to have him become the youngest four-star general ever."
Omer Carmichael, school superintendent of Louisville, Ky L.H.D.
Citation: "You and the Louisville community demonstrated to this nation and the watching world that both persuasion and compliance with law are essential to the human relations of a democracy."
Nelson Rockefeller LL.D.
Citation: "Because you bear a name behind whose renown many would doze, you have been privileged to personify the truth that whatever else comes readymade, there are nothing but selfmade men."
Alfred P. Sloan Jr LL.D.
Carlos Baker, critic Litt.D.
Douglas Horton, dean of the Harvard Divinity School D.D.
Homer A. Thompson, archaeologist who helped restore the Agora of Athens L.H.D.
Denison University
Albert C. Jacobs, president of Trinity College LL.D.
Fordham University
Clare Boothe Luce
.Litt.D.
Citation: "A quick and restless mind, a profound understanding of charity, a winning sense of humor and a radiance of manner--these attributes make her one of the outstanding women of our age."
Hamilton College
Herbert Brownell Jr LL.D.
James J. Rorimer, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art D.F.A.
Harvard University
Robert F. Goheen, incoming president of Princeton University LL.D.
Citation: "We salute the chosen one of a favorite sister."
Arthur L. Goodhart, U.S.-born professor of jurisprudence and master of University College, Oxford University LL.D.
Dag H.A.C. Hammarskjoeld, U.N. Secretary-General LL.D.
Citation: "He works courageously to forge and use a practical tool for settling the problems of peoples and nations."
Christian A. Herter, Under Secretary of State LL.D.
Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Land camera and chairman of the Polaroid Corporation -. Sc.D.
Citation: "Through his ingenuity we can portray ourselves in 60 seconds."
Jan Hendrik Oort, director of the Observatory of Leiden Sc.D.
Citation: "A stellar force in science who has made a neighbor of the galaxies."
Robert Burns Woodward, Harvard chemist who synthesized quinine, cholesterol, cortisone, strychnine and lysergic acid Sc.D.
Barbara Ward. British economist and political essayist Litt.D.
Citation: "A charming lady whose respected voice and clear mind call the West to freedom through faith."
Bruce Catton, historian of the Civil
War Litt.D.
Erwin Panofsky, art historian: . .D.Arts Omer Carmichael . . .M.A.
Johns Hopkins University
Nathan Marsh Pusey . . .
.LL.D.
Citation: "Both as president of a liberal college and as president of the mother of American universities has never yielded to the howlings of demagogues."
Herbert McLean Evans, discoverer of vitamin E Sc.D.
Middlebury College
Eric Johnston LL.D.
Sherman Adams LL.D.
Citation: "As the trusted friend and assistant to the President of the United States, with great courage, intelligence, and efficiency you labor without stint to bring to fruition with dispatch the domestic and foreign policies of our national government."
Sidney Painter, historian LL.D.
Citation: "We honor you today as an eminent classical scholar, neither intimidated nor discouraged by the present glamour of the scientist . . . and as one who has come to understand and to live the meaning of the words 'and gladly teach.' "
Dr. Howard Rusk, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at N.Y.U.'s College of Medicine. .Sc.D.
Mills College
Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator "from Maine LL.D.
Pearl Anderson Wanamaker, former superintendent of public instruction in the state of Washington LL.D.
Montana State College
William Benton, former U.S. Senator from Connecticut LL.D.
Oberlin College
Chester Bowles, former ambassador to India . .LL.D.
Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichordist and biographer of Scarlatti Mus.D.
Southern Illinois University
Major Alexander P. de Seversky. .Sc.D.
University of California
H. Rowan Gaither Jr., chairman of the Ford Foundation LL.D.
University of Michigan
Arthur E. Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General LL.D.
George Kennan. former ambassador to the Soviet Union and Pulitzer Prize historian LL.D.
Citation: "Having played a major role in world events of the last quarter century, he has devoted his genius to record them with the scholar's insight and the philosopher's wisdom."
Michigan State University
Richard M. Nixon. .
.LL.D.
Citation: "Twice elected to the vice-presidency of the U.S., you have brought to that high office a new dignity and usefulness which strengthen our political system."
University of Pennsylvania
Bernard F. Gimbel LL.D.
Associate Justice William J. Brennan
Jr LL.D.
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of AEC
LL.D.
University of Rhode Island
David Sarnoff LL.D.
Western Reserve University
Alan Gregg, retired vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation. . . Sc.D.
Citation: "A wise counsellor with purity of motive, he encouraged and stimulated those who turned to him for wisdom, detachment and broadened perspective."
Yale University
Dag Hammarskjoeld LL.D.
Robert F. Goheen LL.D.
Sir Percy Claude Spender, Australian
Ambassador to the U.S. LL.D.
Donald A. Quarles. Deputy Secretary
of Defense LL.D.
Alfred M. Gruenther LL.D.
William Henry Hastie, judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals LL.D.
Citation: "Skilled and creative in your employment of legal knowledge, sensitive arbiter of social conflicts, you speak for the finest tradition of Anglo-American law."
Dickinson W. Richards, Nobel laureate in medicine Sc.D.
Citation: "Your courageous exploration of cardiopulmonary functions . . . will mean longer and more productive lives for millions."
Joshua H. Burn, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University. . . . Sc.D.
Kenneth Scott Latourette, Sterling Professor Emeritus of missions and Oriental history at Yale D.D.
Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor of Foreign Affairs Litt.D.
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