Honorary Degrees Awarded to Seven
Folloiwing are the citations read byPresident Dickey in conferring honorarydegrees at Dartmouth's 184th Commencement exercises.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER President of the United States DOCTOR OF LAWS
MR. PRESIDENT, in 1952 you were a relatively innocent bystander at a new discovery of awesome portent for American political geography, establishing that the high road from Texas via Kansas to Washington runs plumb through New Hampshire. The eminence of the Presidency precludes the bestowal of greater honor and all too often fends off even those words of encouragement and gentle praise on which each man's life is somewhat borne forward. May we not, however, mark this historic Dartmouth day with these few words for your remembering no great captain ever gave to free men everywhere such confidence in the reality of their collective- strength for the common defense of God's peace. To you who have given us this and more, our appreciation paradoxically is best expressed by the quality of what we ask for tomorrow. That, sir, in daily deed is the measure of the liberating arts we here profess. In this mission and with your honored acceptance of her Doctorate of Laws Dartmouth is privileged to plight you her troth.
LESTER BOWLES PEARSON Secretary of State for ExternalAffairs, CanadaPresident of the General Assemblyof the United Nations DOCTOR OF LAWS
SON and grandson of Methodist ministers, your career strongly suggests that from such a start a man might hope to be all good things to almost all men. Graduate of Toronto and Oxford, outstanding practitioner of hockey, Rugby and baseball, an old "blue" at lacrosse, flight lieutenant, professor of history, career diplomat, war-time Ambassador in Washington, member of Parliament, Secretary of State for External Affairs, President of the United Nations General Assembly and good friend of this College, if we cannot call you ours, we rejoice that Canada can. No dedicated diplomat of one nation ever worked more effectively for the collective security and cooperative well-being of all nations. Your vigor, your for thrightness, and your resourcefulness have enlarged the dimensions of modern diplomacy and your statesmanship has transfused the cause of peace with Canada's staunch and steady strength. Dartmouth is privileged to confer on a distinguished son of our great, good neighbor the honorary Doctorate of Laws.
JOSEPH MEYER PROSKAUER LawyerChairman, New York StateCrime Commission DOCTOR OF LAWS
UNTO you our Maker entrusted capacities of mind, spirit and charity far beyond the common lot. The story of your life is witness to the uncommon fidelity with which you have honored that trust. The imprint of your hand is found whereever a helping hand could reach. One of the really preeminent advocates of the American bar, you have given the best of yourself to the common causes of city, state, and country and, in all literalness, to the advancement of dignity for every human creature. As a judge, as a counselor of statesmen, as a leader in your religious community in crisis, and now as one who dared be asked to meet the challenge of vested crime, you have given the bite of meaning to those virtues of decency, courage and independence of mind whereby the good causes of men and nations prosper. As one worthy of the fellowship of her cause, Dartmouth awards you her Doctorate of Laws.
JOHN JAY MCCLOY Chairman, Board of Directors,The Chase National Bank DOCTOR OF LAWS
GRADUATE of Amherst College and the Harvard Law School, you are the sort of prime product by which liberal educa- tion, a profession and, indeed, a nation can afford to be judged. Artillery officer in World War I, Assistant Secretary of War under Stimson in World War 11, President of the World Bank, United States High Commissioner for Germany, such a progression of duties bears its own testimony to those attributes of size which set the inner dimensions of a man. Today, a foremost practitioner of private financial enterprise, you are a symbol at home and abroad of America at her private and public best. Your respect for candor, your rejection of cant, your contempt for cheapness, your espousal of excellence, your confidence in the worth of thought, these are coin of the realm in any good society. For the stout part you have played in keeping such coin undebased in the large affairs of contemporary America, Dartmouth awards you her honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
GRENVILLE CLARK Citizen DOCTOR OF LAWS
BORN a New Yorker; bred in the liberal arts and the law at Harvard; seasoned in Vermont; now as squire of Dublin, you are today a fit New Hampshireman. A renowned "Wall Street" lawyer and for many years a stalwart of Harvard's governing Fellows, your name is famed across the land for a life-time of service to the free climate of America and her free market places of ideas; primary instigator as a private person of the citizen soldiery pro- grams whereby this Nation survived two World Wars, you have today characteristically gone forward alone in the total commitment of your mind and spirit to the entangled issues of disarmament and the enforcement of international order. Perhaps no other man in our time so abundantly portrays the truth that a man can lead no better life than he does of whom it can always be said "he is a great citizen." In gratitude for the example you give to all who labor in Dartmouth's vineyard as elders, teachers and students, this College delights to make you one of her own as Doctor of Laws.
SHERMAN ADAMS '20 Assistant to the President ofthe United States DOCTOR OF LAWS
IN the beginning there was Vermont and a preacher grandfather; since then there has been Dartmouth, the New Hampshire mountains, the woods, the lumber business, the legislature, Congress, the Governorship, the bet on a man, a Presidential campaign, and now a task more demanding of selflessness and more expendable of self than any man could choose for himself. Here today on Hanover Plain in the presence of North Country friends with whom in large measure these things were learned and earned and shared, and in the honored company of the man whose unlimited duty is the measure of your daily work, your College is strengthened with the quiet joy of family pride in a son s achievement and good repute. The Yankee chapter of the American story has been enriched by your career and that, in these parts, is about as high as honest words go. To the bachelor's degree earned as a student and the master's degree traditionally accorded a New Hampshire Governor, Dartmouth adds her highest honor, the Doctorate of Laws, in witness of her admiration and affection for you and your absent partner, Rachel.
HUGH GREGG Governor of New Hampshire MASTER OF ARTS
YOUR Excellency's presence here today would surely gladden the eye of Eleazar Wheelock, that other son of old Eli, who in 1771, as founder of this College, welcomed your predecessor, Governor Wen tworth, to that memorable first commencement. Few men in our day are elected Chief Executive of a State at 34 and fewer yet preface such distinction with a career embracing major private and public responsibilities as lawyer, businessman, legislative counsel, alderman and Mayor of Nashua, let alone five years of active duty with the armed services. In public leadership you match confidence with performance, vigor with resourcefulness, and a sense of going places with a sense of place. Dartmouth is proud to testify to her sense of place and privilege as a New Hamp- shire institution by welcoming the State s eighty-third Governor into her fellowship with this traditional mark of her affection and esteem.
HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS shown with President Dickey and President Emeritus Hopkins before the exercises on Commencement morning. Left to right, seated: Mr. Hopkins, John J. McCloy, President Eisenhower, President Dickey, Lester B. Pearson, Joseph M. Proskauer. Standing: Sherman Adams '20, Grenville Clark, Governor Hugh Gregg.
