Dartmouth Honors 10 Recipients of Degrees

HENRY THOMAS MOORE President of Skidmore College Saratago Springs, New York

GRADUATE of the University of Missouri and possessed of wide academic experience; Dartmouth has happy recollection of the value of your one-time service here for more than half a decade as teacher and chairman of the Department of Psychology. Whether occupied in the classroom, in faculty councils, in national service in time of war, in research groups or in college administrative work, the quality of your contribution invariably is outstanding. Of the college president it has been said that "he should know the frontiers of knowledge and move forward with them. But also he should know the background of human values which do not change with time." These specifications and many more you have met. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctorof Laws.

ROSWELL FOSTER MAGILL Professor of Law in Columbia University New York City

GRADUATE of Dartmouth College and of the law school of the University of Chicago; distinguished alike in the teaching and the practice of the law; author of indispensable works on the law and taxation; you have periodically in various capacities been called to the service of the National Government in the Department of the Treasury. Your preeminent mastery of the complex problem of taxation led finally to your recent service as Secretary of the Treasury. Combining profound knowledge of the problems of the taxing authority with understanding of the perplexities of the taxed; joining recognition of economic and political realities with constructive efforts for tax reform; farsighted in prediction of intricate interactions of cause and effect in our national economy; your statesmanship in the troubled seas of fiscal policy has reflected credit on your College. Less than a quarter century since, on an occasion like this you ended your undergraduate years with high distinction both within and without the curriculum. Today we welcome you back, expressing our pride in your manifold accomplishments, and in token thereof conferring upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD Dramatist New York City

FOREGOING your senior year at Harvard for enlistment in the Canadian Black Watch, unflinching in the service of ideals by which the spirits of the youth of your time were fired, you emerged from that grim struggle to begin a career of cumulative distinction as writer and editor and as student and practitioner of the ageless art of the theater and of the incipient art of the cinema. Yours have been the priceless and too seldom associated gifts of lightening a people's load of seriousness and of exciting high aspiration. Yours has been the service, in an age of reckless iconoclasm, of giving back to America in rich human dimensions the heroic figure of one of its great men. Yours has been the full-hearted challenge, in a time of defeatism, of a moving dramatization of high courage, sacrifice and hope in the face of disaster. Capable in accomplishment and farsighted in vision, yours have been the dream and the leadership towards a great national theater in which this College holds hope of having a part. In appreciative recognition of the achievements and of the qualities which are yours, I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Letters.

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Librarian of Congress Washington, D. C.

GRADUATE of Yale College and of the Harvard Law School; your formal education saw its conclusion in a time analogous to the present. Bravery and poetic awareness went with you into the artillery. In the subsequent unfolding of your distinguished powers as poet, editor and journalist, your generation's proper revulsion from the ghastly frustrations of war was not absent. Now in this tragic day, with acute perception of values for which free men must yet make sacrifice, abjuring the moral abnegation and spiritual poverty which the writings of your generation tended to diffuse, courage and awareness are with you still. In this time of major crisis you have spoken the needful word and have rendered the indispensable service. Writer and lover of books, upon you as the worthy treasurer of this nation's central storehouse of these, I confer the degree of Doctor of Letters.

MATT BUSHNELL JONES '94 Lawyer and Author Newton Center, Massachusetts

GRADUATE of Dartmouth and of the Harvard Law School, you are one in whom professional responsibilities in the practice of the law and in the subsequent presidency of a great public utility have never been held as exclusive of a lively and an informed interest in cultural things and matters pertaining to these. Possessed of a keen intellectual curiosity, you have developed the spirit of scholarly research and have before today and from other than your alma mater received academic recognition for literary accomplishments. Caustic critic of all that seems to you to be sham, or of affectation small or great, you have never criticized except to build. Native of the New England north country, and in strength of your convictions and expression concerning these, representative of the stock from which you have sprung; generous contributor of collectors' items to Dartmouth's library and author of Vermont in the Making; I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

WILBUR IRVING BULL '09 Religious Leader among Rural Churches Waterford, Maine

GRADUATE of Dartmouth with high academic honors and possessed of the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Sacred Theology from Hartford Theological Seminary; you early determined and have steadfastly held that your calling was to serve faithfully in small places. In such communities, deaf to the calls of urban churches, you have been a doer of large deeds. Esteemed in the state and national councils of your church, respected as an organizer of the Larger Parishes of Maine, among the country folk in the wide areas of your adopted commonwealth you are admiringly regarded more as an institution than as an individual minister. Into the countryside, with special ministry to her people, you have followed Him in whose hallowed name you perform the varied human services; in respect of which I confer upon you your College's degree of Doctor of Divinity.

OZIAS DANFORTH MATHEWSON '90 Principal of Lyndon Institute Lyndon Center, Vermont

LINKED to the early history of Dartmouth I through birth in the village of Wheelock, Vermont; prepared for college at the institute of which you have long been, as now, principal and trustee; graduated from Dartmouth fifty years ago this week; you have faithfully and fruitfully devoted the subsequent half century to the education of the youth of this North Country. Not only as a lifelong teacher, but as a member of the Vermont Legislature, as leader in the affairs of public and private education in your state, as an active servant of your church, and as a respected and useful citizen in your local community, you have filled your life with the service which the College delights to recognize and honor in her sons. I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy.

HAROLD GODDARD RUGG '06Assistant Librarian of Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire

FROM time of your undergraduate days, for three and a half decades in devotion to the College you have given loyal service to it, you have mastered knowledge of the resources of its library and you have worked without respite to the end that availability of these should be increased for those who sought the library's use. It is due to the steady pressure of your quiet effort that its collections include so many of the rarer and finer specimens of the art of making books. It is due to you that the mass of the material relating to the life of the College grows steadily more complete. It is due to you that so many indispensable services here and there under College auspices are rendered with such unobtrusive faithfulness. Collector of fine books and of other examples of fine old craftsmanship; recognized authority within these fields; but most of all friendly helper of all inquirers concerning library resources; I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

CLARENCE GODFREY MCDAVITT '00 Pre-eminent in Alumni Service Newtonville, Massachusetts

THERE are other qualities than mercy that are not strained but drop upon the ground beneath as does the rain from heaven. The fact that they are intangible makes them no less real. The fact that they are indefinable prevents our calling them by name as we ascribe them to you. But in their quiet constancy and in their unobtrusive persistence that Dartmouth should never represent any other thing than the strong, the beautiful and the good, you have wrought for the College in the highest tradition that attaches to alumni influence. No responsibility has ever been too great and no detail has ever been too small for you to undertake if it was in College interest. For what you have been, for what you have done, and for what you are, the College honors you. I confer upon you its honorary degree of Master of Arts.

JOHN HAROLD FOSTER State Forester of New Hampshire Concord, New" Hampshire

RECIPIENT of the Bachelor's degree of Norwich University and the Master's degree of the Yale School of Forestry; skilled in the practice and creative in the development of the science of forestry; efficient in emergencies of fire or hurricane; your life has been devoted to the conservation of natural resources and their use to the maximum benefit and enjoyment of human beings. Whether in the national Forest Service, as teacher of forestry in New Hampshire and Texas, as United States Fuel Administrator, or as state forester earlier in Texas and now in this state, you have with modesty of spirit been a selfless and single-minded trustee of the gifts of a lavish Creator to frequently unmindful Man. In recognition of two decades of valued service in this state, whose gifts from Nature loom so large among its assets, this College which derives so much from the New Hampshire countryside honors herself by welcoming you into her fellowship, with the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

RECIPIENTS OF HONORARY DEGREES AT 171 ST COMMENCEMENT First row, left to fight: Robert E. Sherwood, dramatist, Litt.D.; President Henry T.Moore of Skidmore College, LL.D.; President Hopkins, who conferred degrees; RoswellF. Magill '16, Professor of Law at Columbia, LL.D.; and Archibald MacLeish, Librarianof Congress, Litt.D. Second row: Matt B. Jones '94, lawyer and author, Litt.D.; the Rev.Wilbur I. Bull '09, religious leader in rural Maine, D.D.; Harold G. Rugg '06, assistantlibrarian of the College, M.A.; Ozias D. Mathewson 'go, principal of Lyndon Institute,Ph.D.; John H. Foster, State Forester of New Hampshire, M.A.; and Clarence G. McDavitt 'OO, leader in Dartmouth alumni affairs, M.A.