THOMAS NELSON PERKINS

Independent in judgment, wise in counsel, and distinguished in accomplishment; the range of your interest and the quality of your attainments are attested by the high positions to which you have been summoned in industrial leadership, in Government responsibilities, and in public service as indicative of the will of the American people to assist in the political and economic stabilization of European affairs. Eminent in your standing at the bar, prominent in the directorships of great business enterprises covering the breadth of this land, chief counsel of the War Industries Board and assistant director of Munitions during the world conflict, citizen member of the Reparations Commission and its successor in Paris, so in part reads the list of your distinctions. Upon you as representative of how application may be made of the ideals of the American cultural college to the intricate problems of a workaday world, and as well upon you as a member of the governing board of a great and admired sister institution of higher learning, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

WILLIAM GILLETTE Doctor of Letters

THOMAS W. PROCTOR '79 Doctor of Laws