Monday, Jun. 21, 1954

Kudos

Amherst College

Dag Hammarskjoeld U.N. Secretary General LL.D.

Citation: "You are a mountain climber ... but the long, slow ascent from war-born confusion in which you have played so significant a role, has shown that man-made obstacles are far more challenging than those raised by nature . . ."

Bates College

John Phillips Marquand .... L.H.D. Sherman Adams, assistant to President

Eisenhower LL.D.

Millicent C. Mclntosh, president of

Barnard College L.H.D.

Brown University

Harold W. Dodds, president of Princeton University LL.D.

Nathan Pusey, president of Harvard University LL.D.

Citation: "Clear-sighted and luminous exponent of the liberal arts; strikingly modest but courageous administrator."

Cambridge University Ruth Draper, monologuist LL.D.

Citation: (translated from the Latin): "One man in his time plays many parts, but it is unusual to find someone who not only played her parts one after another, but several at once . . . Yet . . . has anyone . . . seen her in the character of academic woman? It is surely time that she added 'fabulae togatae' to her repertoire; so let us clothe her in our scarlet gown . . ."

Colby College

Andrew Wyeth, painter .... D.F.A. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover . . Sc.D.

Citation: "Deviser of the nuclear reactor that led to the first undersea vessel powered by nuclear energy, you have enabled men for the first time to go down into the sea in ships wholly independent of the atmosphere . . ."

Elwyn Brooks White L.H.D.

Citation: "Tolerant observer of human foibles, implacable foe of all forms of tyranny, lover of nature and friend of furred and feathered life, a modern Thoreau at home in both Brooklins . . ."

Colgate University

Robert Moses L.H.D.

Peter J. W. Debye, Nobel-Prizewinning

chemist L.H.D.

John Hay Whitney LL.D.

Dartmouth College

Roy E. Larsen, president of TIME Inc., and chairman of the National Citizens Commision for the Public Schools.................L.L.D. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (jointly) .........L.H.D.

Citation: "What the Lunts have joined together Dartmouth will not set asunder. thirty years ago ..........a new dimension was added to the theater of our time;.....You have paced each other with intelliogence, wit, integrity, hard work and unparalleled grace until it can be said of your performing art that words are never put to better use or needed less......

New York University Francis H. Taylor, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ....D.F.A.

Citation: "He brought to his present post not only a wealth of scholarship and experience, but the celestial vision and terrestrial sagacity that have lifted our foremost American treasure house of the art of the ages to unprecedented heights...

Occidental College Henry Robinson Luce, edito-in-chief of TIME, LIFE, and, FORTUNE...L.T.D.

Citation: "For your constructive leadership in effective journalism, for your extensive leadership in humane and educational benevolence, for your knowledge of the principles and laws by which only may democratic society be maintained in harmony and progress."

University of Rochester Agnes Meyer, wife of board charimen of the Washington Post...L.H.D. Citation:" For her enmity to all forms of tolerance, political corruption and witch-hunting demagoguery, Mrs Meyer has incurred the wrath of notorious enemies of our common humanity. .." Smith College Oveta Culp Hobby......L.L.D. Agnes de Mille, choreographer.L.H.D. Dorothy Canfield Fisher....L.l.D.

Tufts College Senator John F. Kennedy.....L.L.D. Governer Christian Herter...L.H.D. Richard Rogers, composer...L.H.D.

Citation: "By your great gifts you have made light and bright the hearts of men and women everywhere."

Williams College General Alfred Gruenther...L.L.D. Grayson Louis Kirk, president of Columbia University............L.L.D. Arthur Bliss Perry, headmaster of Milton Academy.........L.H.D.

Citation: "A teacher in the great tradition presiding over the destinies of Milton Academy with. ..insight into the human heart an ability to help to form human character...."

Wittier College (Wittier, Calif.) Richard Nixon.........L.L.D.

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