RECIPIENTS OF HONORARY DEGREES

At the recent Commencement honorary degrees were conferred by the College upon the following ten men:

Master of Arts

Lemuel Gulliver Hodgkins '00 sometime Deputy Commissioner of Insurance of Massachusetts, Worcester, Mass.

Louis Bertram Hopkins 'OB, Director of Personnel, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Fred Allan Walker '88, Newspaper Executive, New York City. John Gilbert Winant, Governor of New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire.

Doctor of Music

Arthur Foote, Composer, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Doctor of Divinity

Frank Walworth Hodgdon '94, Professor of Ministerial Practice, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California.

George Sherman Mills '9O, Pastor of the Wellington Avenue Congregational Church, Chicago, Illinois.

Doctor of Science

Frank Baldwin Jewett, President, Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York City.

Doctor of Laws

Harry Woodburn Chase 'O4, President, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Livingston Farrand, President, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

The presentations were made by Professor Erville B. Woods, chairman of the Faculty Committee on Honorary Degrees. The characterizations by President Hopkins in conferring the degrees follow:

LEMUEL GULLIVER HODGKINS

Intelligent and uncompromising adherent to the highest ideals of your profession, whether in private practice or in your long term of service to. your native state; within your highly technical .field inventor and establisher of important principles now widely adopted by state insurance departments for the institution of methods of fair and adequate supervision. Skilled administrator in affairs designed to conserve the public good,—by virtue of the authority vested in me I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts. LOUIS BERTRAM HOPKINS

Long time a careful student of how best men may live and work together; realist in consideration of rapidly accumulating theories of an embryonic science; wise in counsel and discreet in practice concerning the application of these, whether in government service, in industrial relations, or among the personnel of colleges and universities;—by virtue of the authority vested in me, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

FRED ALLAN WALKER

President of the Association of the New York Newspaper Publishers; expert in the organization of great newspaper enterprises; whose knowledge contributes to the making of journalism ever more prompt in bringing to the individual reader the news of the world and whose aspirations lead ever towards a greater accuracy which shall increasingly make journalism a true picture of life and therefore a completer agency of education. By virtue of the authority vested in me, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

JOHN GILBERT WINANT

Your Excellency: Dartmouth both welcomes you today as the chief magistrate of its native state and greets you for the manhood which is yours. New Hampshire, since its incorporation into the Union, more often has had cause to view itself as a cradle of political leadership, to be made available to the welfare of other commonwealths, than to express appreciation for contributions made to it by others, as is due in your case. Son of a sister college of historic foundation and associations; sometime teacher in a great school; modest, valiant and distinguished in service in the World War; now leading and striving to formulate the completer expression of an enlightened opinion in public affairs within the Granite State;—I welcome you into the Dartmouth fellowship and by virtue of the authority vested in me I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

ARTHUR FOOTE

Alone, among composers of the United States, native born and native trained; whose talent has manifested itself in wide variety of forms, distinguished uniformly by conspicuous merit; faithful, in all which you have wrought, to your fine conceptions and lofty ideals; personally beloved and professionally held in high respect;—I welcome you to the fellowship of Dartmouth men and upon you, as the dean of American composers, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Music.

FRANK WALWORTH HODGDON

Experienced in successful practice of your profession; enhancer^of its prestige and safeguarder of its welfare; vital contributor to the creation and establishment of the Pilgrim Memorial Fund; lucid expounder of the ways of the Christian ministry to men whose feet are turned into its paths; modern interpreter of the force of ancient doctrines;—by virtue of the authority vested in me, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

GEORGE SHERMAN MILLS

Faithful pastor and effective preacher; whose progressive leadership is directed by keen intelligence and whose broad influence is based on kindly thought; long a contributor to the welfare of an old New England community, now making available the cSmmon denominators of your varied talents to the diverse needs of a great city parish;—by virtue of the authority vested in me, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

FRANK BALDWIN JEWETT

Sometime teacher in college ranks, distinguished research student in your chosen field, whose combination of productive imagination and practical common sense, long valued by your friends and associates, was sought as indispensable to the country's efforts in time of war; whose constructive genius has magnified the agencies of pea.ce; embodiment in your own career of the fact that wise industrial leadership and sound learning are mutually contributory to each other and mutually advantageous to the public good;—I welcome you to the fellowship of Dartmouth men and I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

HARRY WOODBURN CHASE

Heir to special opportunities and graced by a record of unusual success; kin of and successor to pioneers who in the New South created and cultivated demand for a wider availability of the advantages of higher education; interpreter of your functions particularly in terms of the highest social welfare among -those who live about you.; now strategically placed for defending the educational faith that truth is not created by dogmatic assertion nor established by legislative enactment but still is to be found only by careful search of the inquiring mind;—by virtue of the authority vested in me I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

LIVINGSTON FARRAND

Learned in many fields of knowledge and valuable contributor in all of these; careful scholar, scientifically trained; broad in cultural interest and attainment; generous in the devotion of your talents to public service in widely varied forms; able director of the complicated affairs of one of America's greatest universities, whose personal attributes enhance administrative genius;—I welcome you into the Dartmouth fellowship and by virtue of the authority vested in me, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.