Pres. Hopkins Honored

PRESIDENT HOPKINS HAS recently received two high honors by being elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and by being the recipient of the honorary LL.D. degree from Bowdoin College at its sesquicentennial exercises on June 24. The Academy is the second oldest learned society in America and is devoted to the cultivation of all the arts and sciences of a free and independent people.

In conferring the honorary Doctorate of Laws upon President Hopkins, President Sills of Bowdoin used this characterization:

Ernest Martin Hopkins, a graduate of Dartmouth, President of Dartmouth College, whose words carry weight from Maine to California, wise counsellor to all who seek advice from freshmen to senators and railroad presidents who equally need his counsel; appropriately taken into our Bowdoin family both by his own right and to strengthen the friendly ties which began with the first two presidents of Bowdoin College a century and a quarter ago and have been firm ever since; senior in service of all New England college presidents, beloved by his colleagues, youthful in his outlook and energy, living in the hearts of Dartmouth men, honored and respected by the sons of other academic mothers, Honoris Causa, Doctor of Laws.

The Bowdoin doctorate of laws was the 15th honorary degree which President Hopkins has received during his long academic career. He holds the Litt.D. from Amherst; the L.H.D. from Hobart; and the LL.D. from Colby, Rutgers, Brown, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, McGill, Yale, Williams, Harvard, St. John's, Wabash, and William and Mary.