New Dartmouth Honorary Degree Holders
STANLEY KING, President-elect of AmherstCollege, Boston, Massachusetts: Called to administrative direction of a sister New England college of liberal arts, with which for more than a century the associations of this College have been intimately friendly, Dartmouth seeks at this earliest moment to extendi its felicitations to you and to the academic fellowship which has sought your guidance. The limitations of formal address preclude yielding to the temptation of expressing the confidence bred by personal friendship, but the privilege of official position allows emphasis upon the qualities you are known to possess. Your intellectual interests, your breadth of experience, and your devotion to the ideals of higher education qualify you outstandingly for the responsibilities of your high office. Reared in the Amherst tradition, educated under its auspices, you have been for years a perspicacious member of the governing board of the college. You bring to your alma mater those qualities of affection, understanding, and solicitude which make for the large realization of great opportunities. Upon you as welcome neighbor and as desirable friend, I confer the Doctorate of Laws.
ADOLPH SIMON OCHS, Publisher of The NewYork Times, New York, New York: The path of whose achievement stretches from newsboy in a southern city to leadership in metropolitan journalism and to proprietorship of one of the world's greatest newspapers, it is the manner not less than the scope of your accomplishment that commands recognition of the American college. Capturing the vision of your early years, cumulatively capitalizing the experience which you have avidly sought, and tenaciously holding to your carefully conceived conceptions of what makes for trustworthy and comprehensive presentation of the news, you have rendered acceptable service to an appreciative public and you have created a fount of knowledge from which day by day flows more abundantly than has ever been known before the fundamental data significant to understanding of the world's affairs. Estimable as a citizen, generous and intelligent in public service, talented to the point of genius in your field of specialized effort, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary of the Interior and President of Stanford University, Washington, D. C.: Professionally trained as a scientist in the field of medicine, the fine edge of your intellectual curiosity has cut through the barriers to which the specialist too often submits and has given range to your breadth of interest in all that pertains to life and human welfare. Successively Professor of Medicine at Stanford, Dean of the Medical School, President of Stanford University, and member of the Cabinet, you have meantime been a vital factor in the immensely important development of the Institute of Pacific Relations, you have made yourself an authority on the delicate problem of race relations on the Western Coast, you have labored for the coordination and consolidation of social agencies in your native state, and you have accepted heavy public responsibilities in times of war and peace. Definite in opinion and forceful in expression, your positions in civic, academic, or political affairs are determined by the processes of a trained intellect supported by the instinct of a native intelligence. For all of these reasons, but particularly upon you as the President of a great and admired sister institution of higher learning, Dartmouth confers the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
James T. Gerould '95 DOCTOR OF LETTERS
John M. Comstock '77 DOCTOR OF LAWS
S. Prentiss Baldwin '92DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
Commencement at New Bema Site President Hopkins awarding LL.D. degree to John M. Comstock '77 in shade of the canopy over the speakers' platform.
