Visitors Honored With Degrees

IN one of the most colorful ceremonies during the Convocation, Dartmouth on the afternoon of the final day conferred its honorary Doctorate of Laws upon the eight British and Canadian visitors who took leading parts in the three-day program. An academic procession, with the faculty in cap and gown, marched from Parkhurst Hall to the Bema, where until 1953 the June graduation exercises were held. At the head of the procession marched the Pipers o' Ben Dhu, in kilts and scarlet jackets, their bagpipes and drums lending a lively note.

Sir William, at the conclusion of the conferring of degrees by President Dickey, gave the address of the afternoon. He spoke of the importance accorded to freedom of thought by the Anglo-Canadian-American Community, and asserted that in the world contest with Communism "the final battleground will be the mental and spiritual strength of our peoples." [Portions of his address are printed in the Convocation Supplement with this issue.]

Following are the citations read by President Dickey:

SIR HAROLD CACCIA, when The NewYork Times proclaimed you to be "the perfect choice for the job" as you took up the duties of British Ambassador at .Washington during the dim prospect of early last November the editorial writer must have had in mind your birth in India, Wellington's confidence in the magic of Eton's playing fields, your prowess as an Oxford blue in a rugby scrum, the calluses and talents derived from twenty-seven years as a career diplomat, including an escape under German fire from Greece, the retention of sanity in protracted negotiations with the Soviet and a capacity for dancing all night - if necessary. A short ten months later the record reveals The Times' forecast simply spoke sober truth. And now, nearly two hundred years since the Royal Governor acted for George the Third in conferring corporate life on this College, Dartmouth confers on a truly extraordinary plenipotentiary of Elizabeth the Second the deserved tribute of the Doctorate of Laws.

SIR GEOFFREY CROWTHER, you bear one of the certain marks of greatness, the capacity to stand up to your time as a mind as well as a man. Coming to the editorship of the world's most influential journal of statecraft on the eve of a period of seemingly unfathomable trouble for the British nation, you stood up to the successive crises of appeasement, of world war and cold war, of short pounds and hot debates, with nothing more - and nothing less - than the armory of a fine and unflinchingly independent mind. Peripatetic yet profound student of American affairs and wise interpreter of the Anglo-American alliance to its component parts, to you Dartmouth extends the warm and possessive welcome which marks the return of a regular Great Issues lecturer as Doctor of Laws.

JOHN GEORGE DJEFENBAKER, above all else on this occasion of your first visit to the United States as Canada's leader we want you to know that you walk hen among men and women who prize their friendship with your great country be yond any man's reckoning. Born in th East and reared in the West of a vasland, tempered in compassion by the defense of the least of us in criminal court schooled in statesmanship both as a product of parliament and a participant in the concept of international common wealth, you personify democracy's preparation of a man destined to bear the trust of a nation's power. This College which has always agreed with the compass about all things northerly takes especial pride in avowing that you are more than we come here, you are now one of us as Dartmouth Doctor of Laws.

JAMES STUART DUNCAN, born and educated in France, wed to a daughter I Spain, over a span of nearly fifty years you combined managerial genius and an unremitting private ambassadorship to score of nations to make one of Canada oldest companies a leading international producer of agricultural machinery. Today throughout the international cot munity you are known as a pioneer among the growing group of far-sighted business-statesmen who bring both vision and daily reality to the free world's cas as a better way of life. Dartmouth rejoice to enroll such a "career man" in die foreign service of her far-flung fellowship a Doctor of Laws.

ARTHUR LEHMAN GOODHART. New Yorker by birth and endowed with qua' ties which made you the only America ever to preside over an Oxford college, in learning, deed and instinct you are veritably a one-man Anglo-American alliance. Your devotion, as a legal scholar and teacher, to the philosophy of liberty underlying the common law points the way whereby our common heritage will always be today's common task and tomorrow's common aspiration. Such bonds transcend the troubles of statesmen and for your part in strengthening the most enduring tie of all, our common lot, Dartmouth awards you her Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa.

SIR WILL!AM HALEY, your career in the laconic words of Who's Who began "at sea" and though both literally and figuratively it was a short stretch, out of it came that love of good reading which took you to the top as a merchant prince in the realm of words. As critic, writer, editor and executive you have served the English-speaking community its most basic fare — free thought and good language. Sometime lecturer in Great Issues at Dartmouth, your acceptance of her Doctorate of Laws, personally and as the representative of a great institution of adult learning, does honor to the purposes of this Convocation and this College.

EDGAR WARDWELL MCINNIS, born a Prince Edward Islander, graduate of the University of Toronto and a Rhodes Scholar winner of both the B.A. and M.A. degrees of Oxford, as historian, teacher, author, broadcaster and student of Canadian public life you are well nigh the indispensable man in any gathering devoted to the better understanding of what your neighborly country nicely terms her "external affairs." To you, an exemplary craftsman of mutuality in international understanding, whose work guards the unguarded frontier, Dartmouth awards this token of gratitude, her Doctorate of Laws.

SIDNEY EARLE SMITH, out of the stout stuff of which Nova Scotians are bred, the rigors of war, the professions of law and teaching and the philosophy of a , fisherman, you have become the leader of Canada's largest educational enterprise and one of your country's most respected voices. Both in the Dominion and throughout the Western World, you are honored as an educator who acts on the belief that the indispensable mission to ' civilization of liberal learning is only well performed by those who possess both intellectual power and moral restraint. Dartmouth delights to welcome such an ally as Doctor of Laws.

Honorary decree recipients with President Dickey. Lett to right: Sidney E. Smith, Edgar W. Mclnnis Sir William Haley, Sir Geoffrey Crow. ther, Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker, President Dickey, Sir Harold Caccia, Prof. Arthur L. Goodhart, and James S. Duncan.