President Receives LL.D

President Hopkins was honored by St. John's College with the LL.D. degree at the inauguration of Douglas Huntley Gordon as president of St. John's April 30. President Hopkins delivered the inauguration address at the installation of one of the youngest college executives at the head of one of the oldest American colleges. The ceremonies were held on the St. John's campus in Annapolis, Maryland, with President Gordon and Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland delivering the other speeches of the occasion. Dr. William Thomas Councilman, Harvard pathologist, and Thomas Cochran, New York financier, received honorary degrees.

St. John's College was chartered in 1784, as a continuation of King William's School, an academy founded in 1696. It is a liberal arts college for men, with about 300 students, and was mentioned in Dartmouth publica- tions at the time of the institution of the Dartmouth senior fellowships as the only college which awarded similar fellowships. The new president of St. John's is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School. He has practiced law in Baltimore, and is only 30 years of age.

The doctorate of Laws from St. John's is the eleventh honorary degree awarded to President Hopkins. He holds the doctorate of Letters from Amherst, and LL.D. degrees from Colby, Rutgers, Brown, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, McGill, Yale, Williams and Harvard.