Doctor of Laws

Learned scholar and inspiring teacher, for more than a quarter of a century in the service of one of our greatest universities; trainer of a host of other teachers who have helped to broaden the scope and humanize our conception of history; editor extraordinary of a vast series of historical monographs; writer whose trenchant vigor is matched by gracefulness of style rand by a quiet sense of humor, the inheritance, perhaps, of Quaker ancestry; true humanist in whom the amassing of factual knowledge has not obscured the vision of the poet that is most native in you; active worker in behalf of world peace and international justice, whose optimism remains undaunted amid the manifold discouragements of these times; unselfish servant of us all, in that you have for many years ungrudgingly held back from those beloved fields of investigation in which you are an authority in order to labor for the healing of nations and for the common good of mankind.