Hobart Degree

To his previous honorary degrees Presient Hopkins has now added a new one, Doctor of Humane Letters, conferred on him by Hobart College on the occasion of the inauguration of President William Alfred Eddy on October 2. President Eddy was formerly a teacher in the department of English at Dartmouth.

The Hobart citation, as delivered by President Eddy, follows:

"Ernest Martin Hopkins, President of Dartmouth College since 1916 when yon were the youngest of college presidents, you still represent in the nation the idealism of youth undiminished by your rich and responsible experience. An administrator who relies on comradeship instead of bureaucracy, you have eliminated from your college family of over 2600 men all pedantry, pettiness, and persecution. You have used your office and your influence to advance others and to efface yourself, and have been content to practice modestly the charity which others preach. If you can be persuaded someday, in a national emergency, to leave the Dartmouth you love and to accept the call to public office you have repeatedly refused, you will find the eager support of a grateful nation. We salute in you today a great liberal leader to whom labels and degrees are nothing, and to whom the education of personality is everything—personality which is strong, positive, and responsible.

"By virtue of authority which you no longer hold over me, committed to me by the Board of Trustees, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters with all the signal rights and privileges pertaining thereto, and I welcome you into the fellowship of Hobart men."

The honorary degrees now held by President Hopkins, with the dates awarded, are: Dartmouth, M.A. 1908; Amherst, Litt.D., 1916; Colby, LL.D., 1916; Rutgers, LL.D., 1916; Brown, LL.D., 1919; Pennsylvania, LL.D., 1921; New Hampshire, LL.D., 1922; McGill, Yale and Williams, LL.D., 1925; Harvard, LL.D., 1928; St. John's College, LL.D., 19,32; Wabash, LL.D., 1932; Hobart, L.H.D., 1936.