Honorary Degree Citations
The citations delivered by President Hopkins in conferring honorary degrees on five prominent leadersin varied fields of life at the exercisesin the Bema Sunday morning, May10, follow:
JOHN ELIOT ALLEN '94 Chief Justice, New Hampshire SupremeCourt Keene, New Hampshire
WHEN TODAY WE GREET you in this official ceremony as a welcome guest, we recall pleasant days of the past when as a member of Dartmouth's faculty you were a familiar figure about this campus. Honor here, as elsewhere among those with whom you have dwelt, has always been your portion. New Hampshire born and bred, the quiet course of your career has been illustrative of that devotion to the orderly conduct of affairs in your home community and in your native state which is the bedrock of democracy. For the pervasiveness of your influence and for the consequence of services rendered, this state owes you much. Four decades and a half ago, you were admitted to the New Hampshire Bar and began your practise in Keene. Successively you have served as Judge of Probate, Associate Justice of the Superior Court, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Now for eight years as Chief Justice of that high court, you have protected and maintained the high standards and the outstanding prestige of that position and commanded respect for yourself and for your works at home and abroad. I confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
CYRUS STUART CHING Member, National War Labor Board New York City
NATIVE OF Prince Edward Island and among whose diversified activities are listed one-time laborer in an Alberta grain elevator, motor-man on the Boston Elevated Railroad, president of the American Management Association, and now for more than two decades high official in charge of labor relations in one of America's great industrial enterprises; to you has come wide recognition as an authority in the field of industrial relations. In you labor and management alike have found a friendly adviser and a wise counselor. To you education has always been a boon so greatly to be desired as to be sought and won at whatever effort, even if at many times this was over the difficult road of self- attainment. Finally, in formal education you sought and earned your degree in law and admission to the Massachusetts Bar by night study, supplementing work by day necessary to self-support. Lecturer on labor relations for many years at various of the foremost colleges of the country and welcome guest now these many years at Dartmouth as lecturer in the Tuck School; recently by Presidential appointment a vital contributor to the country's war effort on the National Defense Mediation Board; and now rendering distinguished service on the National War Labor Board; I confer upon you the honory degree of Doctor of Laws.
Hu SHIH Chinese Ambassador to the United States Washington, D. C.
To WHOM POISE and finely balanced judgment have come through mastery of the wisdom of the ancients, confidence in the capacities for self-improvement of your contemporaries, and faith in the validity of truth as an inspiration for human betterment in the future; we welcome you today as outstanding among leaders in the field of letters, as likewise you are in the field of statecraft. Through you access to learning, formerly restricted to the few, has been made available to the many in your native land; through you has been established the realization in your own country that democracy could never flower where cultural influences were narrowly restricted; through you has been cultivated knowledge at home that insularity is a stultifying influence upon a nation's thought. Whether to you as representative of a people whose indomitable courage, whose dogged persistence, and whose miraculous achievements against overwhelming odds have gone far toward saving civilization in our time from extinction, or to you personally as sage, oracle, and prophet, we pay homage and we proffer to you the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
JOHN LIVINGSTON LOWES Teacher Cambridge, Mass.
BORN A HOOSIER, graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, possessed of degrees in coarse and honoris causa from a dozen universities here and abroad; brilliantly creative in the solitude of scholarship and magically productive in the boundless humanity of the born teacher, you have long been a refulgent star in the Harvard galaxy. Once a mathematician, twice a dean, you are preeminent in the interpretation of literature; voyager "through strange seas of thought, alone" and traveler of terrestrial highways too, you have imparted your virtually epidemic enthusiasm to communities of scholars from California to Wales. Among the world's few truly definitive books, your pioneer adventure inside the soaring mind of Coleridge you have made more exciting than a detective tale. Chaucer you have made our contemporary. Analyst with the rare power to dissect with- out impairing poetic beauty; writer with unerring flair for the fitting word; surveyor of poetic highways from Canterbury to Xanadu; philosopher with a poet's soul; upon you I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
FRANK BERRY SANBORN '87 Engineer Cambridge, Mass.
THE BACHELOR'S DEGREE which fifty-five years ago you earned from this college you supplemented with a degree in Engineering from the Thayer School and later with a Master's degree in Science from Harvard University. The list of your accomplishments as scientist, college professor, inventor and developer of mechanical aids for medical use is too long for recital here, After nineteen years in academic work as member of a college faculty teaching Civil Engineering, your desire for the development of scientific apparatus, in promotion of which you had become interested, led you to abandon the security of your college professorship and to launch an industrial enterprise which today stands as leader in its field of manufacture of electrocardiograph and basal metabolism apparatus,—a concern which, moreover, has been built up to a unique position in the field of employer-employee relationships through its policy from early days of profit sharing. Upon you as scholar, one-time teacher, inventor, progressive industrialist, and scientific authority on measurement of heart beats, blood pressure, and like problems concerned with the health of human beings, I confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.
DARTMOUTH HONORS FIVE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS OF THE COLLEGE Gathered on the steps of Parkhurst Hall are recipients of honorary degrees May 10, shownabove with the President. Left to right: Cyrus Stuart Ching, John E. Allen '94, ChineseAmbassador Hu Shih, President Hopkins, Frank B. Sanborn '87, and John L. Lowes.
