PRESIDENT HOPKINS RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREES
Three institutions, McGill University, Yale University, and Williams College, conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon President Hopkins during the Commencement season of this year.
On May 29 the president received the degree from McGill. He was presented by Sir Arthur Currie, principal of the University, in the following Words: Mr. President and Chancellor: I present to you Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, administrator, educator, scholar and highly honored public servant and citizen of the United States of America. As the distinguished and capable head of a great college, long on intimate and friendly terms with McGill University, and in recognition of his untiring devotion to the claims of university education, of his clear and courageous public pronouncements on great and far-reaching questions of university policy and of his unfailing faith in the power of thoroughly trained and selected university leadership, alike in his own country and in ours, I ask you, on behalf of this convocation, to confer upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
Following the presentation the degree was conferred by the Chancellor, President Beatty of the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
On June 17 the same degree was also conferred by Yale University. The presentation was made by Professor William Lyon Phelps in the following words: Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, A leading authority on education and a practical man of business. For a number of years he was engaged in various American cities in the organization of industrial concerns, in the war he was in charge of industrial relations in the quartermaster's _ department, was assistant to the secretary of war, representative of the war department on war labor policies, president of the board of trustees of the Woodrow Wilson foundation, director of the Boston and Maine Railroad; one can obtain from this enumeration some idea of the qualities of his executive ability. As a college president he has the mind of a scholar, the courage of a soldier, and the heart of a boy. He has never been afraid, either for himself or tor his undergraduates, of new ideas, or of any one who proclaims them. A believer m freedom of thought and speech It is a pleasure today remembering that Dartmouth is a child of Yale, to unite the two institutions by honoring one of the educational leaders of America.
President Angell in conferring the degree spoke as follows: Ernest Martin Hopkins, for your services as "a distinguished and fearless leader who has persuaded conservative New England to look with enthusiasm upon fresh educational ideas, as a courageous defender of the faith in the liberal college, as a vigorous champion of democracy in college life, and particularly as the honored chief executive of a great American institution founded by men of Yale stock, we confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws and admit you to all its rights and privileges.
On June 22 President Hopkins was at Williams College where he was presented for the same degree by Professor Carroll Lewis Maxcy in the following terms: Mr. President: For the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws I present Ernest Martin Hopkins.
Graduate of Dartmouth in 1901; for five years secretary to the president of his alma mater; for a like period secretary of the college; from 1910-16 engaged in industrial personnel work; and since 1916 president of Dartmouth College.
Nurtured amid the best traditions of the small New England college; trained in educational administration under a president revered by every Dartmouth man; versed in the management of large interests through personal contact with practical affairs; President Hopkins has brought to his alma mater rare qualifications for the direction of her educational and administrative policies. Under his wise supervision "a little one has' become a thousand, and a small one a great people."
