THIRTEEN HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED AT COMMENCEMENT
During the Commencement exercises m Webster Hall thirteen honorary degrees were awarded to men eminent in many fields. The recipients of the degrees were presented by Professor Gordon Ferrie Hull and the degree conferred by President Ernest Martin Hopkins. The words used in the presentation by Professor Hull and the characterizations by President Hopkins are quoted below: HUGH ALCORN, faithful and effective State's
Attorney of Hartford County, Suffield, Connecticut.
State's Attorney for Hartford County, Connecticut, for two decades; life member of the Council of the American Law Institute; faithful public servant. By years of industry, in
combination with unusual intellectual qualifications, you have acquired an enviable reputation as a learned counselor and a brilliant advocate. Firm and untiring in the prosecution of the criminally vicious; quick in sympathy with the repentant; you illustrate in your own character and conduct that respect for law which is essential to peace and order. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts. JENS FREDRICK LARSON, college architect,
modern viking in the realm of art.
Adviser and guide in the architectural development of the structural Dartmouth of today; sympathetic collaborator in meeting the exigencies of diverse functions of different buildings, while working always to enhance the unity of the plant as a whole; quick in instinct but adaptable-minded in contemplation, whose technical skill is supplemented with understanding of the spirit of the College and who seeks, in development of beauty in the new, to preserve the grace and strength of the old, I confer upon you the honorary "degree of Master of Arts.
ROBBINS WOLCOTT BARSTOW 'l3, minister, First Congregational Church, Madison, Wisconsin.
Representative of three generations of Dartmouth men who have been preachers of the Word; capable executive in development of the strength and resources of a church strategically placed for service to youth; understanding guide and enlarger of the religious interests of a great university community; to whom has been given the spirit "of power, and of love, and of a sound mind," I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.
BOYNTON MERRILL 'IS, minister, Second Church in Newton, West Newton, Massachusetts.
Contemporary representative of that great fellowship which in years past has gone forth from these halls into the Christian ministry,— and meet for the succession; demonstrator of cumulative power in varied fields of effort; now upholding the tradition of scholarship and influence associated with an important pulpit; blessed in your deed, as long ago he was declared to be who should not be a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work; I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. CHARLES NELSON HAS KINS, chairman of the library committee of the faculty, professor of Mathematics in Dartmouth College, nevertheless a useful member of our community.
Whose vivid imagination under the guardianship of the scientific mind; whose grasp of the educational problem of the American college, combined with a true sense of proportion in regard to the importance of its respective needs; whose painstaking research undertaken and valuable data secured on Library problems and whose indefatigable labor and unceasing solicitude have contributed to make the recently acquired and greatest utility of the College of maximum effectiveness: already possessed of a doctor's degree won by .the rigid discipline of qualifying for your profession, now again in different form is proffered to you this degree as a symbol of affection and respect; and upon you, as an associate and a friend, I joyfully confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.
HERBERT EUGENE IVES, a contributor of our knowledge of various branches of physics, member of the research staff of the Bell' Laboratories, New York City.
Inheritor of the spirit of research from a brilliant scientific father; a broad and thorough training in your chosen science, a mastery of technique and breadth of vision acquired in numerous researches in pure science, made possible your conspicuous service during the War, while in charge of aerial photographic research, and has enabled you and your associates in a great industrial research laboratory to make commerically possible the transmission of pictures by electricity and more recently to demonstrate the possibilities and limitations of the newest marvel of our scientific age—that of television. For what you have done, for what you are doing, and for the keenness of mind and the irrepressible urge toward investigation which will carry you into new realms of accomplishment, I bestow upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.
PHILIP HALE, cultured critic of music and dramatic art, Boston, Massachusetts.
Native of our neighboring town of Norwich and graduate of Yale University; who early found the call of true artistry to transcend the appeals of business and professional life; earnest student of, and accomplished performer on, the organ; discerning pungent, yet tolerant and kindly, commentator on the abilities and performances of other artists; erudite commentator on the history and progress especially of the great art of musical composition, but industrious and stimulating expositor of many other arts; dean of American musical and dramatic critics, ready with praise where praise is due and unsparirig in the fearless condemnation of unworthiness and shams; I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Music.
CHARLES ADAMS PLATT, artist and architect, New York City.
Author, etcher, painter, and architect; whose distinctive achievements in varied fields are significant of the sympathetic mind, the sensitive soul, and the aspiration for truth which
distinguish the great artist. Kindly and stimulating in association with your fellows, you combine grace and strength in your work and within the diverse realms of your accomplishments you make pervasive the subtle influence fo beauty. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
JAMES ALFRED SPALDING '66, venerable author
and beloved physician, Portland, Maine.
The inspiration of whose achievements in your chosen field of medicine derives m part from your great-grandfather, Dr. Lyman Spalding, first Lecturer in Chemistry m the Dartmouth Medical School more than a century and a quarter ago;-ouarter ago;—upon you who are m prolessional associations forthright and public spirited; authoritative contributor to medical journals' and sympathetic translator from foreign periodicals of articles of importance; easy in your command of foreign languages; wide in the range of your acquaintanceship with literature; keen in your appreciation of music; zealous guardian of the flame of culture wtthin your individual life,—upon you I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
MARK SULLIVAN, widely read author and journalist, Washington, District of Columbia.
Lawyer, journalist, and author; perspicacious observer and interpreter of the political life the American people; whose intimate acquaintanceship with the recent past, as well as with the living present, has made possible valuable compilation and recording of events temporary life: thus in form absorbingly interesting to the generation to whom these facts pertain but by whom they had been largely forgotten, incalculable service has been ered to historians of the future; I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor or Letters.
LEWIS PARKHURST *7B, senior trustee of Dartmouth College whose business interests are more or less bounded by the North American continent, whose residence is m Winchester, Massachusetts, but whose heart has been here in this College for generations of faculties and trustees.
For two decades vital contributor to the strength of Dartmouth's governing board and wise collaborator with three administrations, devisor of the College budget system and conservator of its financial affairs; generous donor commemorating here the life and character of beloved son; first among the Trustees insistent in emphasizing the need of a new Library and from the beginning active cooperator in all plans to this great end; whose interest in and participation in public affairs of your s have been associated with keen sense of responsibility for the welfare of your home community; practical student of penology, I conter upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. .
GEORGE HIGGINS MOSES '9O, dynamic and potential United States Senator who has just entered this his promised land of New Hampshire after expeditiously leading certain bewildered tribes through a western wilderness.
Recently permanent chairman of the Republican National Convention; sometime Minister to Greece and Montenegro; United States Senator from New Hampshire: talented, industrious, and courageous in public service, m which you have been long enrolled; farseemg m analysis of political trends and brilliant strategist in party councils; cultured and companionable m social contacts; possessed in remarkable degree of the confidence of your constituents at home and the respect of your colleagues in the distinguished law-making body of which you are a part; I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
NEWTON DIEHL BAKER, Secretary of War in the war cabinet of President Wilson, appointee to the Permanent Court of
Arbitration at the Hague, idealist for peace.
University trustee and eminent member of the Bar; for two terms the administrative head of a great municipality; as a member of the President's Cabinet through years of major crisis, the capable organizer and efficient director of a military effort of unprecedented magnitude; appointee as American representative to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at ihe Hague:—through years of unselfish public service and in your relationships as a citizen, you have cumulatively won and held respect for those qualities of practical idealism and constructive liberalism which the American college delights to honor. I welcome you to the Dartmouth fellowship and confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
