Pres. Hopkins Honored
PRESIDENT HOPKINS received his six-teenth honorary degree recently when the degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred upon him by President Samuel S. Stratton '20 of Middlebury College at the 25th Anniversary exercises of the Bread Loaf School of English. A Dartmouth professor, Hewette E. Joyce, acting director of the school, presented President Hopkins for the award of the degree, so the College was represented by the three chief figures taking part in the occasion.
In conferring the honorary degree upon Mr. Hopkins, President Stratton used the following citation:
ERNEST MARTIN HOPKINS, SO distinguished as an educator and man o£ affairs that you have previously been honored by fifteen colleges and universities; so respected for your clear vision and sound judgment that your counsel and guidance are sought in the highest circles of government and industry—we of Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf School of English are indeed proud that we may pay tribute to the outstanding record of achievement which places you among the truly elite of our republic. It is .an elite to which membership comes only by virtue of uncompromising integrity, of intelligence of high order and of the accomplishment of great works and not by the acquisition of economic or political power.
More intimately in honoring you this evening we evidence our sympathy with your affection for the historic New England college. We give our endorsement to your respect for the spiritual and intellectual values inherent in a liberal education and we testify that we share your confidence that such education and such colleges will make an even greater contribution and receive more widespread and intelligent recognition in the changing world of tomorrow.
By choosing this 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Bread Loaf School of English as the occasion for honoring you, distinguished advocate of the humanities, we thus reaffirm our faith in the ideals and in the traditions which have been fostered on this mountain campus by the officers and faculty of this school.
For these sufficient reasons and for others which shall be left unsaid, I am proud and honored to confer upon you by virtue of the authority vested in me by the trustees of Middlebury College the degree of Doctor of Letters, with all the rights, privileges and honors here and everywhere appertaining thereto.
