Recipients of Honorary Degrees in June

HONORARY degrees were conferred upon Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior and president of Stanford University, Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of The New York Times, Walter Lippmann, distinguished journalist, President-elect Stanley King of Amherst College, and eight others distinguished in education and public service by President Hopkins at the Commencement exercises.

The LL.D. degree was bestowed upon John Moore Comstock of Chelsea, Vt., graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1877 and a leader in the civic, educational, and political life of his community and state, in addition to Secretary Wilbur, Mr. Ochs and Doctor King.

Walter Lippmann, graduate of Harvard College, author, editor, and journalist, and James Thayer Gerould '95, librarian of Princeton University, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

Samuel Prentiss Baldwin, a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1892, founder of the Baldwin Bird Research Laboratory at Gates Mills, Ohio, was the recipient of the Doctor of Science degree, while Frank Walworth Booth, superintendent of the Nebraska State School for the Deaf, was made Doctor of Pedagogy.

Doctorates of Divinity were bestowed upon David Ernest Adams 13, professor of Religion in Marietta College, and President Everett Carleton Herrick of the Andover Newton Theological School, a graduate of Colby College and of Newton Theological Institution.

The Master of Arts degree was conferred upon George Henry Duncan, member of the New Hampshire Legislature and expert in the field of taxation, and Ralph Edward Flanders, engineer and social scientist of Springfield, Vt.

In presenting the degrees, President Hopkins summarized the services of the recipients. His characterizations follow:

MASTER OF ARTS

GEORGE HENRY DUNCAN, Member of theNew Hampshire Legislature, Jaffrey,New Hampshire:

Expert in the vitally important field of taxation, counselor and adviser on problems of rural highways, conscientious student of public affairs, your record as a perennial member of the New Hampshire Legislature is as distinctive for its quality as for its duration. As a zealous guardian of public welfare, you have won recognition as one of the State's most useful citizens. Your enrollment as an undergraduate in Amherst College in the Class of '99, until personal and imperative exigencies required your withdrawal in senior year, precludes Dartmouth from exclusive claim upon your academic loyalty but it does not preclude her from proclaiming her appreciation of your worth, which she now symbolizes by conferring upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

RALPH EDWARD FLANDERS, Engineer andSocial Scientist, Springfield, Vermont: Engineer and administrator, expert in business management, wherein you have found the principles of social philosophy relevant and efficacious, you have over the difficult road of self-attainment won recognition for the soundness of your scholarship, even within the technical realms of the professional economist or the trained sociologist, and you have commanded approving attention of experts by your writings upon these subjects. Therefore, upon you as one whose spirit we have known and the quality of whose self-acquired learning we have admired, as well as upon you as one contributing to the educational process of the College in your capacity as a non-resident lecturer, I confer the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

DOCTOR OF PEDAGOGY

FRANK WALWORTH BOOTH, Superintendentof the Nebraska State School for theDeaf, Omaha, Nebraska:

Graduate of lowa State College and throughout life a teacher and a director of teachers in schools for the deaf; it is frequently said and seldom disputed that for him who will profit by it the school of experience may be a more fertile source of inspiration than the school of books. Certainly the two in combination, as in your case, are richer than either alone. Observant in your own boyhood of the handicaps imposed upon both your parents by deafness, through fifty-odd years you have studied and taught to enlarge the lives of those similarly afflicted by reducing the barriers between them and the hearing world. Courageous in spirit and constructive in eff&rt for the establishment of more effective methods of teaching, in your profession you have been an acknowledged leader in overcoming the inertia of established practice and in defeating opposition of conventional thought, with the result that from dependence upon the pseudolanguage of signs the deaf have been afforded release in a command of the English of their hearing fellowmen, upon whose lips they can read it uttered and for whose ears they can enunciate it in well-articulated replies. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy.

DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

DAVID ERNEST ADAMS, Professor of Religionin Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio:

Graduate of Dartmouth in the Class of 1913 and of Union Theological Seminary; under varied circumstances and in communities of widely different characteristics you have shown yourself possessed of high qualities of merit as a preacher and of solicitude as a pastor, attributes too rarely found in combination. Whether because of inheritance, environment, or natural aptitude, the course of -your career has so naturally directed itself as to seem foreordained to ministering to a college constituency and to teaching in academic halls. Under the critical scrutiny of a congregation afforded by a community of teachers and students, you have won and held respect and influence. Now, amidst scenes familiar to you since earliest childhood and in recognition of the quality of a service which was the first objective of this College in its early years, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

EVERETT CARLETON HERRICK, President ofAndover Newton Theological School,Newton Center, Massachusetts:

Graduate of Colby College and of Newton Theological Institution; collegiate recognition of your merit is no new experience for you. Your varied accomplishments Dartmouth knows and unhesitatingly holds sufficient for any academic honor which might be bestowed. Beyond other good works, however, she holds one in grateful remembrance, namely, the recovery from vanishing prestige of the name of a historically great theological school, bound by many a tie to the life of this College. For nearly a century, Andover gave professional training to a multitude of Dartmouth men who sought adequate preparation for the work of the Christian ministry. From Andover's halls within these years likewise came four to head great administrations here and scores to assume positions of educational significance throughout the country at large. With imagination and purpose, you overcame difficulties and skillfully found a way through a maze of legal complications to restore that long- established foundation to influence and service. Self-effacing in effort, persistent in will, distinctive in achievement, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

SAMUEL PRENTISS BALDWIN, Founder andDirector of The Baldwin Bird ResearchLaboratory, Gates Mills, Ohio:

Graduate of Dartmouth in the Class of 1892; lawyer, business man, and naturalist, you have in recent years returned to the field of science, contribution to which you made as an undergraduate and in the years immediately following graduation. Almost coincident with receiving your degree you published in scientific journals important data resulting from exploration and geological research in Alaska, following at brief intervals with like studies of areas in the Southwestern States and of the Champlain Valley. Forced by the demands of professional work for a time to abandon your major interest, at length you turned again to scientific research and now for a quarter of a century as a naturalist have been interesting yourself in ornithology, in the development of new methods for accurate studies of bird migrations, and the perfecting of apparatus for recording details of nesting behavior. Upon you who have become an authority in your field, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.

DOCTOR OF LETTERS

JAMES THAYER GEROULD, Librarian, Princeton, New Jersey:

Graduate of Dartmouth College in the Class of 1895; you are by inclination, aptitude, and experience par excellence the university librarian. Associated for thirty-five years, successively, with the libraries of leading educational institutions and for more than three decades the directing genius respectively of libraries at Missouri, Minnesota, and Princeton, you have made yourself master of and have yourself devised much of the technique of library administration in the American college. Your interest in books has been in their potency to instigate thought rather than in them merely as repositories of knowledge. Your method has been not only to make books available to maximum degree but to arouse the interest which should lead to their fullest use. Meanwhile, as editor and author, you have contributed important articles on matters of historical interest and you have written informingly in elucidation of foreign affairs and persuasively in behalf of completer understanding of the principles which govern international relations. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

WALTER LIPPMANN, Journalist, New York,New York:

Graduate of Harvard College, author, editor, and journalist, the high intellectual promise of whose youth is in maturity being fulfilled; whose idealism is broad enough to recognize the facts of the world in which you live, and whose pen is under the restraint which comes from the sense of responsible power. Independent in judgment, lucid in statement, and fearless in expression of your convictions, you have won for yourself the esteem and confidence of a great reading public. Whether as interpreter of the past, diagnostician of the present, or prophet of the future, your opinions command respect. By indefatigable zeal in the acquisition of knowledge and by rigorous mental self-discipline, you have gone from strength to strength and from accomplishment to accomplishment until today quite properly to you, as to few others, may be applied the ancient designation of seer in the sense of one who sees and understands. In admiration of a culture which is not soft, and of a liberalism which is not impracticable, and of a genius for using words which make thought intelligible, Dartmouth confers upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

DOCTOR OF LAWS

JOHN MOORE COMSTOCK, Citizen, Chelsea

Vermont:

Graduated from Dartmouth's halls fifty-five years ago, you have since given without stint to enrich the lives of those with whom you have had association and you have diffused throughout your environment the deference to learning and the discipleship of culture which are yours. The variety of your interests, the multitude of your activities, the inspiration of your personality upon numberless lives, and the contagion of your quiet friendliness are beyond itemization, as they are beyond any acknowledgment your modesty would allow of their significance. In your north-country village, you have been teacher, academy principal, town clerk and treasurer; in your county you have been examiner of teachers and Register of Probate; in your State you have been compiler of important historical data; in the church of your denomination you have been gatherer and recorder of vital statistics; and in your college you have rendered service of incalculable value. For all these things, and upon you as gentleman and scholar, but most of all for the love of Dartmouth men for you, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

Adolph S. OchsDOCTOR OF LAWS

Ray Lyman WilburDOCTOR OF LAWS

Walter Lippmann DOCTOR OF LETTERS

Stanley King DOCTOR OF LAWS

Everett C. Herrick DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

Frank W. Booth DOCTOR OF PEDAGOGY

David E. Adams '13 DOCTOR OF DIVINITY