Dartmouth Awards Honoraru Degree to Ten

The characterizations, or citations, delivered by President Hopkins in conferringhonorary degrees on ten prominent leadersin varied fields of American life at theexercises in the Bema Sunday evening,June 15, before a crowd of 4,000, follow:

WENDELL LEWIS WILLKIE Citizen New York City

BACHELOR OF ARTS and Bachelor of Laws from Indiana University; veteran of the World War; and, subsequent to your return from service abroad, successively lawyer, business man, and publicist; to you in cumulative degree are being proffered a people's respect and admiring regard; in you patriotism rises above partisan thought. In political defeat you have become a greater force for unity than would have been possible for you in victory; in your present-day position you are illustrative of the fact that in time of crisis a disregard for expediency may be the quickest way to a people's esteem and honor. Broad in understanding, perspicacious in interpretation, living embodiment of the truth that qualities of constructive leadership are more the attributes of men of comprehension than of parvenus of intellectualism; upon you as a citizen unafraid, solicitous first for your country's welfare, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

FRANK KNOX Secretary of the Navy Washington, D. C.

BACHELOR OF ARTS from Alma College, who immediately upon graduation became one of Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" in the Spanish-American War, who after the World War retired from service overseas with distinguished record and with high rank and who now again in public service as a member of the President's Cabinet administers the affairs of America's great sea power. Resident of this state since 1912 and publisher of New Hampshire's foremost newspaper, you have for the last decade likewise made even more distinctive than formerly one of the nation's great newspapers of the Middle West. Free from provincialism, strong in conviction, independent in spirit, and forceful in action; soldier, journalist, and distinguished public servant; I confer upon you, neighbor and friend, the honorary degree of Doctor ofLaws.

JOSEPH BARTLETT EASTMAN Member, Interstate Commerce Commission Washington, D. C.

BACHELOR OF ARTS from Amherst College; you, from an apprenticeship on the Massachusetts Public Service Commission, graduated more than two decades ago to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Thereon you have made yourself indispensable. Always you have been an eager student of public affairs. To you always the intricacies of detail and the far-flung ramifications of the laws of cause and effect pertaining to the transportation system of the country have been problems capable of solution in accord with the public good. Studious in approach to matters of your concern, keen of intellect in examination of these, careful in your appraisal of data, indefatigable in industry and sincere in purpose, you have won recognition for yourself as master in your field and as an invaluable public servant. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

STANLEY ELROY QUA '01 Justice, Supreme Court of Massachusetts Boston

GRADUATE of Dartmouth and of the Harvard Law School; distinguished member of a distinguished court; thorough in examination and comprehensive in grasp of matters which fall within your purview; keen in analytical power; and outstanding for your reputation for intellectual honesty. More exactly than most men you have in your professional field exemplified those qualities which distinguished you among your mates in undergraduate days,—diligent in effort for the accomplishment of whatever you undertake, loyal in purpose always to achieve the honorable, and earnest in your spirit of inquiry to know what constitutes truth. On this campus, where four decades ago you received your Bachelor of Arts, I now confer upon you Dartmouth's highest honor, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

CARL SANDBURG Poet and Biographer Harbert, Michigan

BORN in one of those prairie states of which you have been poet and singer; recipient there in Lombard College of your formal education; self-tutored in the life of America as milkman, bricklayer, farm laborer, coal-heaver, soldier; minstrel and student of those folk-songs which, it is said, mold a nation more powerfully than its laws; you, like the city which you apotheosize, "with lifted head so proud to be alive," have plumbed and sung the heart of America. Now, no less meticulous in scholarship than perceptive in poetic insight, you have given us the magnificent Lincoln who came out of your prairies, with the strength, the faith, and the courage which made great the America of which you write in proud and native rhythms, the America of which you are an honored national poet. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

VAN WYCK BROOKS Author Westport, Connecticut

RACHELOR OF ARTS from Harvard; you, within a year thereafter, in "The Wine of the Puritans" had given notice of your unusual ability to understand and evaluate American institutions. Within the subsequent decade you had established yourself as a nationally known man of letters. In more recent years you have retold and reinterpreted the cultural history of New England from the early nineteenth century to the first World War. In you an appreciative reading public has found an all too rare blending of exact and mature scholarship; sympathetic and comprehensive understanding of men of literature and of affairs; a wise critical perspective; and a style forthright and charming. In recognition of your masterly interpretation of America's cultural history, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

HOWARD MERRILL CLUTE '11 Surgeon Boston

NATIVE of the New England in whose hospitals, laboratories, and classrooms you have rendered service and won acclaim; graduate of this college with the degree of Bachelor of Arts; your courage and skill won high recognition on the battlefields and in the hospitals of France in the last great war. Cumulatively in the decades since, as skillful surgeon, as scientific investigator, as important contributor to the literature of your profession, as inspiring teacher and lecturer, as unselfish citizen and good companion, you have won the gratitude of your patients, the respect of your profession, the appreciation of your colleagues, the devotion of your pupils, the grateful regard of your community and the abiding affection of your friends. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor ofScience.

BENJAMIN WARREN COUCH '96 Lawyer Concord, N. H.

IT would be negation of all for which the College strives if, in recognition of widely publicized accomplishments or of nationally recognized service, sight were lost of the values rendered to society at large by those who quietly and unassumingly contribute needful thought and effort to the welfare of their home communities. You are such an one and in the Concord City Government, in the New Hampshire Legislature, in eleemosynary institutions of the state, and in your professional relations, you have for years won respect and honor as a useful citizen. And too, at important posts and in various capacities as an alumnus you have supported and en- hanced Dartmouth's interests. In recognition of your exemplification of the kind of citizenship which makes this country strong, I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master of Arts.

DAVID WILLIAM ARMSTRONG Acting Executive Director, Boys' Club ofAmerica Worcester, Mass.

BORN in Massachusetts in circumstances wherein responsibilities were more numerous than privileges, educated in major degree by the resources of your own curiosity and industry; you have devoted your talents to the causes of youth and the unfortunate. Organizer and for thirty-five years director of a great boys' club in a large New England city; notably successful in the securing of essential funds for good works, large and small; one-time Commissioner of Public Welfare in your state; imaginative and energetic in the early conception and promotion of a national boys' club organization, of which you are cur- rently the executive officer; upon you as dreamer and worker for the conservation of that fundamental national resource, the American boy, in which none other has greater interest than the liberal college, I confer the honorary degree of Master ofArts.

ROBERT OSCAR BLOOD '13 (Medical School) Governor of New Hampshire Concord, N. H.

IN taking conventional action that New Hampshire's governor should always be reckoned among Dartmouth associates, there is in your case no simple conformity to custom. Already a member of the College fellowship by graduation from the Medical School and with family ties closely connecting you with the College, we take particular pleasure in honoring you as the Chief Executive of the State, to which in other capacities you have long rendered public service; in token of which I confer upon you the honorary degree of Master ofArts.

DARTMOUTH HONORS GIVEN TEN DISTINGUISHED GUESTS OF THE COLLEGE At the Commencement exercises concluding the 172 nd year, degrees were awarded to themen shown above, first row, left to right, Wendell Lewis Willkie, LL.D.; Joseph BartlettEastman, LL.D.; Robert Oscar Blood '13m, A.M.; President Ernest Martin Hopkins;Frank Knox, LL.D. Back row: Carl Sandburg, Litt.D.; Van Wyck Brooks, Litt.D.; DavidWilliam Armstrong, A.M.; Howard Merrill Clute '11, Sc.D.; Stanley Elroy Qua '01,LL.D.; Benjamin Warren Couch '96, A.M.