Honorary Degrees Awarded to Ten

Following are the citations read by President Dickey in conferring honorary degrees at the Commencement exercises:

FREDERICK WINTHROP ALDEN '19Minister of the New HampshireCongregational-Christian ConferenceDOCTOR OF DIVINITY

DARTMOUTH graduate Class of 1919, since as an undergraduate you filled the pastorate at West Hartford, Vermont, you have served the cause of the Christian mission with uncommon fidelity. A Rufus Choate Scholar of this College and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology of the Harvard Divinity School who has done advanced work at three other graduate schools, for many years you gladly met the pastoral need of congregations where the numerical weight of praise was not overwhelming either at the church door or in the offerings of the collection plate even on an Easter Sunday. Beyond the pastorate your capacities have given editorial direction to a devotional quarterly and provided the stimulus and discipline of a good mind in keeping the functions of faith and intellect in honest harmony. Since 1946 you have ministered magnificently to the varied needs of your denom- ination throughout New Hampshire, and today your leadership in keeping religion strong in rural life is an example to the nation. Here on Hanover Plain, where The Reverend Eleazar Wheelock gathered a Congregational church as he founded this College, it is right in our daily work and good, we may hope, in the sight of God that Dartmouth should honor a son whose work in her North Country neighborhood merits the address, Doctor of Divinity.

ADELBERT AMES JR. Investigator of Vision, Perceptionand Human Behavior DOCTOR OF LAWS

YOUR life has had the reach and richness of a Renaissance figure and the influence of your work may well mean a re-birth of understanding of man by men. Graduate of Harvard and her Law School, player of polo, practitioner of Boston law, painter, sculptor, soldier, sailor, inventor, and scientist, it was here as research professor of physiological optics that you discovered, designated and devised the treatment for the hitherto unrecognized defect of vision now known throughout the world as aniseikonia. Through, but not above it all, you have been a life-long student of human perception and purpose until today paradoxically, as one of the world's great men in' vision, you are perhaps best known for your demonstration that seeing is not believing, but rather, that believing is seeing. Here in this community where you are beloved as friend and neighbor, where you have honored this College with your service and where you have labored to create insights whereby men may better teach and more wholly learn, Dartmouth with home-town pride and joy salutes you as Doctor of Laws.

ALBERT BRADLEY '15 Executive Vice President, GeneralMotors Corporation DOCTOR OF LAWS

IF it be asked how you became a preeminent practitioner of American business, a part of the answer might be that you learned to work, to study and to play in that order. A works accountant in a public utility for two years between school and college, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1915, you continued to earn your way and also a Ph.D. in finance and economics at the University of Michigan. Since then as you have moved from an assistant to the comptroller to be Executive Vice-President of the world's largest industrial enterprise, the business outlook has markedly improved for both G.M. and Ph.D. Your genius for harnessing the power of a Niagara of data in the generation of policy has made it possible for enterprises of great size to be better managed by the better use of man's brain. For this enlargement of the market for educated men in an ever-more-productive society, for your tough-minded insistence on the relevance of the liberating arts to the well-being of that society, for your uncommon generosity as counsellor and benefactor in the work of this College and for the fact that you are very, very human about that "hole-in-one," Dartmouth accords you her highest accolade, the honorary Doctorate of Laws.

RICHARD EBERHART '26 Poet DOCTOR OF LETTERS

No man can say where a poet began, but we do know you were born of Minnesota, bred of Dartmouth, Class of 1926, graduated as a Master of Arts by St. John's College of Cambridge, travelled the earth around, tutored the son of Siam's King, taught and wrote verse on American campuses, and became a maker of wax the better to polish the floors on Boston's Beacon Hill. The discourse of your poetry is witness that the deep insights of meaning are not laid bare with easy telling. In your verse you have re-created beyond mere report a life's knowing of both torment and delight. Out of the ash of paradox you kindled the bright truth, "All things by opposites go" and yet you have told us "The Goal of Intellectual Man" is love. . . .

"It is love discoverable here Difficult, dangerous, pure, clear, The truth of the positive hour Composing all of human power."

To you a son who has made the precious return of adding to the store of perceived truth and beauty, Dartmouth's gratitude is bespoken in the bestowal of her honorary Doctorate of Letters.

ALFRED LUNT AND LYNN FONTANNE Actor and Actress DOCTORS OF HUMANE LETTERS

WHAT the Lunts have joined together Dartmouth will not set asunder. Thirty years ago out of your performances in The Guardsman a new dimension was added to the theatre of our time; that dimension is known as "the Lunts." Since that happy opening in 1924 you have paced each other with intelligence, wit, integrity, hard work, and unparalleled grace until it can be said of your performing art that words are never put to better use or needed less. From the stage with strict impartiality you have offered men and women the most finished instruction in the use of foils and foibles in the martial artifices of Olympian as well as human mating. The art of your acting has brought liberating joy to many an audience, but when in crisis the need was hard upon free lands that same art transmitted truly the heartening conviction of another people's courage. These good things you have done as partners, but parenthetically would you not agree that in the presence of these young men it should be noted that even this household has the security of a husband who on his own can stage-manage opera and direct an Ondine. To you as partners without peer in the performing arts, Dartmouth pays homage with her honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters.

FRANK ROWE KENISON '29 Chief Justice, New HampshireSupreme Court DOCTOR OF LAWS

FIRST things should come first, especially with a Chief Justice, and it is therefore fitting on this occasion to say right out that you are a member of the Class of 1929. Born, reared and wed in the state over whose justice you now preside, you typify those downright qualities which have made the term "New Hampshireman" a title of democratic nobility. A graduate of Brewster Free Academy, Dartmouth College and Boston University's School of Law, your career as a public-minded lawyer is notable even in a State where traditionally much is expected, little is paid and much is given in the public service. Successively, you have borne the duties of Carroll County Solicitor, Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General, Associate Justice and since 1952 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. You are a judge whose honesty of mind both pervades the business of decision and through your opinions reaches beyond to illumine for others the deep difficulties in human issues which courts must weigh but can rarely heal. In the confidence of merited honor, your Alma Mater confers on you her Doctor of Laws degree.

ROY EDWARD LARSEN President of Time, Incorporated DOCTOR OF LAWS

IT hardly seems that anything less than cosmic forces could ordain that a Boston boy, even with a Harvard education, should take over executive responsibility for that considerable portion of our earthly lot today embraced by Time, Life and Fortune, not to speak of House and Home. And beyond these domains of print you personally largely brought to radio and film a new sense of scope in reporting full-bodied news in profile and perspective. Paradoxically, and perhaps not by chance, it is you, justly famed for triumphs in mass communication, who today leads a nation-wide effort to recapture the root strength of individuality in a democratic society, community by community, child by child, through the work of our public schools. Education is many things, but all start and flow from the quality of the concern in a society that brings student and teacher together. As Chairman of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, as Overseer of Harvard University, as trustee and vice-president of the New York Public Library and as a director of The Fund for the Advancement of Education, you have committed your quiet competence to keeping that concern in America both vital and right. Dartmouth is proud to grace such citizenship with her Doctor of Laws degree.

CLARENCE BELDEN RANDALL Chairman of the Board, Inland SteelCompany DOCTOR OF LAWS

THE world knows you as the head of a great steel company who dares write his own books and be a featured contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, as a mid-western Republican who stands by his principles of competitive capitalism whether the issue be high-handed seizure, high tariff protectionism or friendly monopoly, and, perhaps best of all, as a business leader who out of his own thought and practice brings to private enterprise a creed of social responsibility commensurate to its economic power. Born the son of a store keeper who brought Chautauqua lectures to a town of 800 persons, outstanding in debate at Harvard, graduated with honors from the College and the Law School and recently Overseer of that University, Trustee of the University of Chicago and twenty years ago President of the Board of Education in your community, your appetite for thought and its rough testing in the market places both of discussion and of daily work, is not some new-found guise that goes with being called a statesman. We as co-workers in the vineyards of education and your particular Dartmouth friends — the seniors of 1953 - remember you as a lecturer in Great Issues who in sharing his experience made others think about their own. In testimony of the earned regard and enduring welcome which are yours here, Dartmouth is privileged to admit you into her fellowship as Doctor of Laws.

GEORGE WILLARD WHELAND '28Professor of Chemistry, University ofChicagoDOCTOR OF SCIENCE

NATIVE of Chattanooga, you ventured north to Dartmouth for the brilliant beginning of a distinguished career in science. A member of the Class of 1928, as a freshman you won the Churchill Prize for the quality of your character; as a sophomore you were awarded the Thayer Prize for distinction in mathematics; you were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in your junior year, and at the end of your senior year, after resisting the blandishments of mathematics and physics, you received a Dartmouth fellowship for graduate study in organic chemistry. Step by step no promise could have been better kept: a Harvard doctorate, four years as research fellow with Linus Pauling at California Institute of Technology, study in England on a Guggenheim fellowship and, since 1937, a member of Chicago's Chemistry faculty, your contributions as researcher, writer and teacher in re-creating the theory of organic chemistry have fulfilled without sign of strain or vanity a judgment expressed by Dr. Pauling in 1938 to Professor Hartshorn, your Dartmouth mentor, that "there is no other man in the world who has a similar grasp of both organic chemistry and the quantum mechanics." For honor done and encouragement given her teaching mission, your College bestows on you her honorary Doctorate of Science.

Honorary degree recipients (seated) and the Dartmouth Trusteesshown before the start of the academic procession Sunday morning.Left to right, seated: Frederick W. Alden '19, Frank R. Kenison '29,George W. Wheland '28, Lynn Fontanne, President Dickey, AdelbertAmes Jr., Albert Bradley '15, Clarence B. Randall, Roy E. Larsen,

Richard, Eberhart '26, Alfred Lunt. Trustees standing: GovernorHugh Gregg, Dudley W. Orr '29, Beardsley Ruml '15, John R. McLane '07, Lloyd D. Brace '25, Harvey P. Hood '18, Charles J. Zimmerman '23, Thomas B. Curtis '32 and Sigurd S. Larmon '14.