Characterizations of Honorary Degree Recipients

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Saranac Lake, New York

DR. LAWRASON BROWN Physician

Graduate of Johns Hopkins; teacher, author and medical practitioner; expert on organization of institutional work for the relief of tubercular infection; self-forgetful in expenditure of time and means in stimulation of all available forces throughout the land against the scourge to which you have made yourself arch foe; your influence constantly widens and extends itself through the disciples you win. Skilled in diagnosis and expert in treatment, these attributes acquire manifold significance to the recovery of health in your patients supplemented as these qualities are by those others of tact and sympathy which impregnate the patient's mind with courage and transmit fortitude to his soul. Upon you as a great physician, in token of the world's indebtedness, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

Hanover, New Hampshire

WILLIAM PATTEN

Professor of Zoology in Dartmouth College

Graduate of Harvard and identified with Dartmouth's progress throughout the modern era coincident with your term of service of nearly four decades, throughout this period you have been a vital contributor to the advance of educational standards here, and the spirit of your life and the example of your devotion to the claims of scholarship have become a part of the heritage which this college makes available to her sons; indefatigable in research, you have as a scholar and as a teacher held with clear vision to your conviction that the ultimate purpose of the acquisition and transmission of knowledge is man's welfare. No country has been too remote and no data have been too inaccessible to curb your zeal for discovery. Breadth of interest, intrepidity as an explorer, friendliness, sympathy and understanding in human relations, have all been concomitants of your work. Valuing the privilege of expressing the desire of the trustees and of the faculty that honor be conferred upon you, I as a former pupil of yours value as greatly the representation of numberless admiring students who will have happiness in Dartmouth's now conferring upon you the Doctorate of Science.

DOCTOR OF LETTERS

New Haven, Connecticut

KAN-ICHI ASAKAWA

Associate Professor of the History of. Japanese Civilization in Yale University

Graduate of Dartmouth and one-time member of its faculty; for twenty-five years a member of the faculty in Yale University; from the formal educational processes of the institutions with which you have been associated you have perhaps not derived more than from the friendship and confidence and inspiration of the great president of Dartmouth in your time. Thus your life and achievements hold twofold measure of significance to all contemporaries of your undergraduate days in this college. Eminent as a scholar, you have in your own personality combined the graciousness typical of the most cultivated of your people and the realism most typical of the Occident. Authority on the institutional life of Japan and foremost of the interpreters of the development and implications of Japanese feudalism, you have been well characterized abroad by other great scholars as outstanding among the living institutional historians of Japan. Your alma mater welcomes you back today as a distinguished son and with satisfaction confers upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

Andover, Massachusetts

CLAUDE MOORE FUESS

Professor of English in Phillips Academy

Graduate of Amherst; possessed of the credentials of scholarship and with the fine spirit of consecration which makes the great teacher, you give loyal and painstaking service to the cause of formal education in the historic Phillips Academy at Andover; in service to that school, likewise, you have inscribed its history and recorded the lives and achievements of many of its men of note; further, and in wider service, you have in the recently much cultivated art of biographical writing made yourself outstanding by historical accuracy, lucidity of style, fine sensitiveness to the spirit of the lives you have chronicled, and distinction in the form of presentation of your subject matter. Within Dartmouth's bounds, appreciation most of all should be expressed for the conscientious care with which you have presented the lives of Rufus Choate and of Daniel Webster and have given new interpretation to the careers of two of Dartmouth's most distinguished sons. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

New York, New York

EVABTS BOTJTELL GREENE

President of American Historical Association

Graduate of Harvard College; author and editor; teacher and university administrator; your labors in your professional field have extended the boundaries of historical knowledge, in recognition of which your associates recently bestowed upon you, in their highest office, the greatest honor at their command. In your researches into the beginnings of the American people you have made approach to the study of our colonial heritage in attitude of the finest scholarship, placing emphasis always upon enduring spiritual and cultural values. Always in your interpretation, you have demonstrated sympathy and understanding in which cynicism and intolerance have found no place. Your services in the field of educational administration and your inspiring and persuasive qualities as a teacher havtf caused you to be gratefully remembered by generations of students who have looked to you as wise counselor and considerate friend. A true son of New England, you have perpetuated her highest traditions as did your father before you in another field. Upon him, son of Dartmouth in the class of '64, as missionary-statesman, Dartmouth twenty-one years ago had privilege of conferring for the distinction of his accomplishment the doctor's degree upon this platform. Here now, upon you, his distinguished son, in like manner as well as in like place, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

DOCTOR OP LAWS

Boston, Massachusetts

FBED TAEBELL FIELD

Justice of Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

Graduate of Brown and successively for more than a decade a member of her Corporation and of her Board of Fellows; president of the Board of Trustees of Newton Theological Institution; one-time assistant attorneygeneral of Massachusetts; later member of the United States Tax Board; recognized authority on the laws of taxation: whose scholarly turn of mind diverted you from available material rewards and led you to accept what for yourself was the more abundant life of investigation and study of problems on the solution of which the public welfare hangs. As in a Commencement season four decades ago Dartmouth recognized the outstanding achievements of her eminent son who became the chief justice of the court upon which you sit, and conferred on Judge Walbridge A. Field, your distinguished uncle, her highest honor, so now, unassociated with any family interest, for merit of your own, Dartmouth confers upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

Middletown, Connecticut

JAMES LUKENS MCCONAUGHY

President of Wesleyan University

Graduate of Yale and formerly professor of education in Dartmouth College and director of her summer school; early in your career a member of the Bowdoin College faculty and one-time president of Knox College; by training, by experience, and by aptitude rightly placed at the head of the administration of an old New England college of liberal arts, this year celebrating its centenary: within these precincts the thoroughness of your scholarship and the quality of your sense of responsibility and the variety of your talents were early recognized; within this community the distinction of your achievements has been followed with friendly interest and with hearty confidence. In appreciation for the service once rendered to this College, and even more in token of respect for the interpretation you give to ideals of cultural education in the presidency of Wesleyan University, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

Englewood, New Jersey

DWIGHT WHITNEY MORROW

United States Senator from New Jersey

Graduate of Amherst College and longtime member of its governing board; before ever the reaffirmation of public election to the heavy responsibilities of public office, you had become an admired and trusted public figure through generous appropriation of your time and interest to the public weal, in widely varying forms of altruistic service. Widely read and within the field of history the peer of those professionally trained; broad in scholarly attainments; perspicacious in judgment and courageous in expression of opinion; generous in consideration of those whose views are divergent from your own; and self-forgetful in expenditure of your abounding energy for the establishment of all that makes for social good; you are representative of the ideals which the cultural college strives to establish within the minds of those who seek its influence. Not as a discoverer, and not as a rival of those many who have delighted to honor you, but with a desire to be an associate of these, Dartmouth has happiness in bestowing upon you its highest honor, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

Cornish, New Hampshire

GEORGE RUBLEE Lawyer

Graduate of Harvard College and in all of your relationships exemplar of devotion to the responsibilities of citizenship, it is in admiration for the unostentatious quality of the service which you render that we welcome you into our academic fellowship today. Membership on the Federal Trade Commission, a term of special counsel for the Treasury Department, appointment to significant commissions at home and abroad, safeguarding American interests during the World War and quiet commitment to the no less important responsibilities assigned to you in times of peace; these and other things testify to the versatility of your genius and the value of its availability for assistance in the conduct of affairs of national concern. Not as a stranger known to this college solely by the confidence reposed in you by officers of state or signified through the decorations of foreign governments but as a neighbor and a friend whose qualities she knows by intimacy of relationship, Dartmouth confers upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

DR. LAWRASON BROWN

DR. WILLIAM PATTEN

CLAUDE M. FUESS

EVARTS B. GREENE

FRED T. FIELD

JAMES L. MCCONAUGHY

GEORGE RUBLEE

DWIGHT W. MORROW