Dartmouth Awards Seven Honorary Degrees

In conferring seven honorary degrees,all of doctorate rank, at the 178th commencementexercises of the College onSunday morning, June 75. in the Bema,President Dickey admitted three honoraryDoctors of Laws, one Doctor of Letters,one Doctor of Science and two Doctors ofHumane Letters into the family of Dartmouth scholars. Following are the individualcitations he read upon awarding thedegrees:

OMAR NELSON BRADLEYGeneral of the Army and Administratorfor Veterans' Affairs Washington, D. C.

SON OF A Missouri school teacher, graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, teacher, soldier, and public administrator; in the eyes of soldier and civilian alike, you give true meaning to the most honored concept of a General. Through you, as agent of the Republic, our citizens have done unto each other, and unto themselves as veterans, more of those things which ought to be done and fewer of those things which ought not to be done, than, ever before in the history of a democracy. You have had the courage and the capacity to lead men by plan in battle and by principle in peace; no nation need ever ask greater fidelity of any citizen and this college never hopes for less from an educated man; in testimony whereof Dartmouth confers on you, with pride, her highest honor, the degree of Doctor of Laws.

JAMES FORRESTALSecretary of the Navy Washington, D. C.

MEMBER AND EMIGRE of the Dartmouth fellowship, Class of 1915, worker and leader in private finance for twenty-five years; since 1940 you have established yourself as one of America's most valued public servants. Previously as Under Secretary, and since May, 1944 as Secretary of the Navy, you bore a heavy share of the responsibility for both the preparation and the performance of the mightiest naval force in history. For the caliber of your statecraft, for the breadth of your sense of public interest, for the relations of mutual understanding and helpfulness which you and your predecessor furthered between the Navy and this College, for all of these and none the less for her joy in your return, Dartmouth takes particular pleasure in conferring on you her honorary Doctorate of Laws.

ROBERT HOUGHWOUT JACKSON Associate Justice of the United StatesSupreme Court Washington, D. C.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE of the nation's highest judicial tribunal, American representative to negotiate an agreement for international trials of European Axis war criminals, and American Chief of Counsel in the prosecution of these criminals at Nuremberg; few yet grasp the magnitude of your accomplishment both as a principal creator and as prosecutor of these historic trials. In getting agreement with the British, French and Russians for the trials, you made international cooperation a reality in a field where neither angels nor lawyers had previously dared successfully; by your prosecution and by the judgments of Nuremberg, civilized society has affirmed the answerability of individual men for the crime of aggressive war. If mankind shall master war, this achievement will occupy an ever larger place in history and Dartmouth will never more appropriately award the degree of Doctor of Laws, which she now confers on you.

ROSCOE DRUMMOND Chief of the Washington Bureau of theChristian Science Monitor Washington, D. C.

ONE-TIME EXECUTIVE EDITOR and presently Chief of the Washington Bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, author of a daily report on the State of the Nation, and magazine writer; you hold the rare distinction of being held in highest esteem by those about whom as well as those for whom you write, not excepting your fellow-craftsmen. As both reporter and interpreter of the news, you have sustained a respect for fact and a capacity for perceptive comment which make you a worthy and, in truth, an exemplary worker in the field of adult education—the most significant service rendered by our best journalism.

In awarding you the degree of Doctor of Letters, Dartmouth avows its confidence and its gratitude that through such journalism as you and your paper represent, general education can be, as it must be, a lifetime experience.

RALPH ALANSON SAWYER Professor of Physics and Dean of the Schoolof Graduate Studies, University ofMichigan Ann Arbor, Michigan

NATIVE NEW HAMPSHIRE SON, graduate of Dartmouth with highest honors in 1915, University of Chicago Doctor of Philosophy in physics and mathematics; since 1919 you have served the University of Michigan as teacher and researcher of physics and more recently as Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. Recognized leader in the spectroscopic study of metals, you were given singular responsibility a year ago as Technical Director of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini. Both as teacher and leader of science in the age of science and above all as a graduate of this liberal arts college who has been worthy of her opportunities and his talents, Dartmouth rejoices in your renown and bestows on you her Doctorate of Science.

SALLY DREW HALL President of the New Hampshire CitizensCouncil for the General Welfare Hanover, N. H.

DARTMOUTH DAUGHTER, sister, wife, mother, benefactress and friend, you have added grace and renown to names on whose fame others might well have rested. Student and practitioner of human betterment, your life and works are clear proof that concern for others and effective civic service are but extensions of those capacities of understanding, care, and making common cause which build and bind the family. In recognition of the quality of your public-mindedness and in token of the esteem and affection long accorded you by the Dartmouth fellowship which your family's generosity and your high spirit so uniquely and devotedly serve, I confer upon you the Doctorate of Humane Letters.

JOHN WILLIAM SLINEY Pastor of St. Joseph's Church Laconia, N. H.

NATIVE OF FRANKLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, sometime student at St. Anselm's College, the Seminary of Philosophy of Montreal University, and the Universitas Angelico in Rome, ordained to the priesthood in 1908, holder of the Bachelor of Theology and Doctor of Canon Law degrees; for nearly forty years now you have served your church and the spiritual life of five New Hampshire communities. As Pastor of St. Denis Church in Hanover for more than a quarter of a century, you shared and guided the religious experience of as many undergraduates as any pastor in Dartmouth's history. The humanity of your fellowship and the reach of your intellect enriched our entire community and make you a most worthy recipient of this College's degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

RECIPIENTS OF HONORARY DEGREES at Dartmouth's 178 th commencement exercises shown with President Dickey just before the start of the academic procession. Seated, left to right: General Omar N. Bradley, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal '15, President Dickey, Justice Robert H. Jackson, and Mrs. E. K. Hall. Standing: The Rev. John W. Sliney, Roscoe Drummond and Prof. Ralph A. Sawyer '15.

GENERAL BRADLEY RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE: Profs. E. H. Booth '18 and John B. Stearns '16 slip the LL.D. hood over his head as President Dickey concludes the citation for Dartmouth's highest award.