Honorary Degrees

Honorary Degrees were awarded to,ten men at the Commencement exercises of Dartmouth's 161 st year, June 18. The degree of Master of Arts was awarded to George Lincoln Plimpton, Headmaster, Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire; Charles William Tobey, Governor of the State of New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was awarded to Benjamin Martin Washburn '07, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Kansas City, Missouri.

The degree of Doctor of Science was awarded to Henry Clinton Fall '84, Teacher and Entomologist, Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.

The degree of Doctor of Letters was awarded to Edmund C. Tarbell, Artist, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvey Cushing, Author and Surgeon, Brookline, Massachusetts.

The degree of Doctor of Laws was awarded to Frank Pierce Carpenter, Industrialist, Manchester, New Hampshire; Alfred Adams Wheat '89, Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C.; Harry Bates Thayer '79, Trustee of Dartmouth College and some-time President, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New Canaan, Connecticut; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of the State of New York, Albany, New York.

Pres. Hopkins characterized the degree recipients as follows:

GEORGE LINCOLN PLIMPTON

Graduate of Wesleyan University and for nearly four decades an effective worker in the New Hampshire preparatory school to which you have brought new distinction; wise in counsel, progressive in attitude, a great teacher and director of youth; you have de votedly served the cause of education. Your announced retirement from this field is a public loss. In tribute to the influence which has been yours, Dartmouth confers upon you as a gesture of appreciation the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

CHARLES WILLIAM TOBEY

By ties of neighborhood and through the relationships of official position, the Governor of the State not only has membership, but is entitled to it, in the Dartmouth family.

Meanwhile, in your individual friendliness to the College and in your active interest in the public weal the personal basis likewise exists, as well as the official, for the pleasure the College has in inviting your enrollment within its ranks; in recognition of which I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

BENJAMIN MARTIN WASHBURN

To those who deplore the lessened numbers going from college halls into the Christian ministry, answer may well be made that the quantity of service proffered is not so all-important as is the quality. Upon you as a son of Dartmouth the College rejoices to bestow its honor for the example of the life you live and for the essential values to society of the work you do. Successively the master of responsibilities unique and of cumulative importance in the largest city of the East, and now in the great mid-western metropolis which is your home, you have shown understanding knowledge of humanity's spiritual need and have rendered vital service to this cause. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

HENRY CLINTON FALL

Unostentatious representative of that inspired group who work for the love of the working, entomologist of international reputation, quiet and productive research scholar, whose manifold accomplishments resulted from patient observation and indefatigable industry, you have classified and catalogued with explicit detail and unremitting care for the use of others the knowledge which you have so laboriously made your own. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

EDMUND C. TARBELL.

It is a happy circumstance which allows the College to enroll you among its fellowship at this particular time, when there is added to the College plant an important new unit to make understanding more available to students of the art to which your skill and genuineness have contributed so greatly. The sincerity and naturalness and realism of your work express qualities, admiration for which the College strives to inculcate into the minds of its men as desirable in all human attitudes. Moreover, through years as a teacher yourself, in generous measure you have made your ideals contagious and have won appreciation and respect from those who sought your guidance. Meanwhile, you have developed the individual potentialities and capacities of your pupils without making them imitators of your own work,a most difficult accomplishment. Neighbor in the citizenship of the Granite State and distinguished fellow among those of the world who have achieved eminence in the field of graphic arts, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

HARVEY CUSHING

Great physician and expert technician, keen in diagnosis of human ills and of proved wisdom in friendly counsel for those seeking physical or social health; richly endowed with the God-given attributes of a sympathetic heart and an understanding mind:it were idle to attempt to add to the honors which have been conferred upon you by institutions at home and abroad or to assume that any order exists more distinguished than the world-famous ones which have before invited your association with themselves. Rather, we seek to number ourselves among those from whom you have accepted honor. Upon you as distinguished representative of the culture for which the liberal college stands and as the biographical chronicler of the life of another great physician and teacher, to the spirit of whose accom plishment the world is debtor, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

FRANK PIERCE CARPENTER

By generous gift you have become participator in the work of this College and vital contributor to the educational values it can offer. Grandson of Josiah Carpenter of the Class of 1787, and by lifelong association and friendship, as well as by lineage, connected with Dartmouth's life; yourself under compulsion to forgo the formal processes of higher education, you have by persistence in self-attainment and rigorous study of the lessons of experience, gained for yourself what few men can gain from a college course. Outstanding citizen of the community in which you dwell and in major degree solicitous for all which makes for the good of this, your native state, you have won for yourself widespread gratitude for the nature and the timeliness of your gifts, as well as for their amplitude. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

ALFRED ADAMS WHEAT

In your career you have personified the spirit of faithful application to the needs of the specific task which came to hand. You have sought the self-discipline of ignoring no problem which came before you and thus have thereby became the master successively of each new problem which has arisen. Twenty-five years respected member of the New York Bar, renderer of important war service in New York as Government Appeal Agent in connection with the selective service law; you have, for more than half a decade, been Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice and on needful occasion have served as Acting Solicitor General. Nominated for high judicial position by the last administration and again nominated by President Hoover and confirmed by the United States Senate for appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the list of your endorsers in itself stands as an honor roll, and as a tribute to your character, your judicial temperament, and the high merit of your accomplishment; in recognition of which I now confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

HARRY BATES THAYER

Deviser of the policies and builder of the organization from which evolved one of the country's great industrial enterprises, the efficiency of which in production was matched alone by its fruitfulness as a training school from which other great corporations have drawn executives; later in the critical postwar period as head of the world's greatest public utility, conservator of its strength and eliminator of its war-imposed weaknesses to a degree that restored internal morale and gained public confidence to unprecedented degree: of you, Dartmouth men say now, in deep appreciation of the continuing magnitude of your service to the College, as has been said before to you in formal address by your business associates, "You have had more than our confidence, more than our loyalty, and more than our respect. You have had, and you always will have, our deep and sincere affection." Today, on occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of your graduation from this college, Dartmouth confers upon you the deferred honor your modesty has long made you reluctant to accept, and in recognition of your contribution to the economic forces of this nation, in admiration for the great administrative genius which is yours, and in gratitude for the incalculable value of your service to the College as alumnus and trustee, declares that you are preeminently entitled to be, and that you are, a Doctor of Laws.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

Representative of qualities of citizenship which make a nation great; liberal in theory and progressive in action; unselfish in the acceptance of great responsibilities and actuated by generous ideals; to you in remarkable degree have been confided the admiration and confidence of your constituents and, as well, of the American people at large. Graduate of that great historic college which three centuries ago established the principle of higher education within our boundaries, and which has contributed so remarkable a quota of men to public service, you, in your career, uphold and enhance a great tradition. Pine in cultural appreciation, intellectual in aptitude, democratic by instinct, and courageous whether in meeting the machinations of political maneuvers or the harsh exigencies of suddenly imposed physical adversity, you are one whom Dartmouth has delight in associating with its fellowship, in significance of which I now confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

GOV. ROOSEVELT AND PRES. HOPKINS