TIMOTHY COLE

Extraordinary in talent and preeminent among the American wood engravers, recipient of the world's highest awards and prizes for supreme accomplishment within your sphere, author of standard monographs upon the lives and works of old masters, you have achieved the high position which is yours through indefatigable industry, the overcoming of hardships which would have daunted one without your stoutness of heart, and the receptivity of mind to improvise and utilize new methods when these seemed good. Possessed of skill as is no living engraver, you interpret onto wood the souls of great paintings. Discriminating in your choice of subjects, and supreme in your technical skill, you have rightly been characterized as having the hospitality of mind to respond emotionally to great art and the genius by your magic to evoke a like emotional response in others. In acclaiming you, the College honors itself as it confers upon you the honorary degree of the Doctorate of Letters.