HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS
THEODOR HEUSS
President of the Federal Republicof Germany
DOCTOR OF LAWS
THE first President of the Federal Republic of Germany, out of disaster deeper than defeat the German people have rebuilt more than a nation under the aegis of your example. Out of the ashes of your burned books men learn afresh their most ancient lesson that human decency, like the Phoenix, will forever arise from its own ashes. A scholar in both art and political economy, you have used style and good humor to moderate the political process and to elevate the human lot. Your wisdom guides us all toward understanding that the best technology is but an instrument and that man's fate depends on his policies.
You come, sir, to this campus as our nation's honored guest and as one who personifies to his time the liberation we seek here through liberal learning. Dartmouth is proud to attest the privilege of such a friend's presence with her highest honor, the Doctorate of Laws.
THEODORE MARTIN HESBURGH
President of the University ofNotre Dame
DOCTOR OF LAWS
At the risk of a little heretical levity we here applaud the unknown canon law lawyer who, presumably moved by prayer rather than fee, recently rendered higher education and the nation the welcome service of declaring you eligible for reappointment as president of Notre Dame beyond the usual term of that office. Rigorously trained in church scholarship, tempered in the flame of others' trouble as a chaplain, you have wagered your educational leadership on the goal of institutional and individual excellence. In the life of the nation you stand as a paragon of example in willingness to share the burden of everybody's business in civil rights, national and international scholarship programs, public policy studies and as a churchman zealously devoted to the advancement of science. Priest of an ancient community of faith, you have ministered to humanity's common cause with a spiritual reach worthy of a Doctor of Laws.
DEVEREUX. COLT JOSEPHS
Chairman of the BoardNew York Life Insurance Company
DOCTOR OF LAWS
PREFERRED by the American community for perhaps more major civic duties than any other citizen of our day: the New York Public Library, the United Negro College Fund, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hoover Commission on the Federal Government, the Governor's Commission on New York City Government, Johns Hopkins and Harvard, the Greater New York Fund, the Ford Foundation's College Grants Committee (distributing at one stroke 260 millions), and President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School - all these, and others too, you served or led. In your spare time you successively headed the T.I.A.A., the Carnegie Corporation and the New York Life Insurance Company. Having managed money, having worked at giving it away and being ever willing to raise it, you earned your conviction that money or effort in whatever guise never speaks more wisely than through better education. Dartmouth delights to enroll such a citizen as Doctor of Laws.
GRAYSON LOUIS KIRK
President of Columbia University
DOCTOR OF LAWS
TEACHER, scholar and craftsman in the art of international relations, five years ago you performed what is surely now an inimitable feat when, with no other political armament than a Ph.D. in political science, you succeeded Dwight Eisenhower in an eminent presidency. In the ensuing five years of your stewardship your world-renowned university has moved from strength to strength with a quiet competence which by no accident you and Columbia share. And it is no coincidence that today you and Columbia personify the American academic tradition at its best; good teaching and creative learning united in public-minded purpose: Dartmouth prizes the mutuality that has long bound her to Columbia and this award of her Doctorate of Laws is witness of her esteem and gratitude for all that you are and represent.
COLIN FERGUSON STAM
Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on InternalRevenue Taxation of the Congress ofthe United States
DOCTOR OF LAWS
A MAN without peer in his knowledge of Federal taxes and yet not for hire by harried taxpayers must be a very unusual fellow. And fortunately for the nation you are just that. For over thirty years now you have served the Congress of the United States as its trusted impartial adviser on tax legislation. The experts' expert in matters that touch both the blood pressure and the pocketbook of all of us, you have made your unique understanding of tax policies and law available to all comers without regard to party or interest and, in turn, you have drawn from all sources, public and private, in the constant enlargement of your mastery. In your own earned right and as the prototype of the finest in our civil service, Dartmouth acknowledges you to be, in the most literal sense, a Doctor of Laws.
RAY WINFIELD SMITH '18
Business and Government official (retired);Collector of ancient glass
DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS
A MODERN college curriculum could well be patterned on your life. The spectrum of your creativity stretches from pioneer cost accounting to fluency in six languages; from inventions for directional drilling of oil wells to being licensed as a flight and navigation instructor in commercial aviation; from briefing officer of the commanding general, U.S. Army Air Force in World War II to U.S. Commissioner of the Military Security Board in postwar Berlin; from participation in the destructiveness of two world wars to the scientific study and loving preservation of rare antiquities; from the German Archaeological Institute to the American Society for the Advancement of Science; from hobbyist to one of the world's foremost students and collectors of ancient glass for the period 1500 B.C. to 1200 A.D. In pride and gratitude for your extraordinary personification of the unity and reach of liberal learning your college extends this spectrum by declaring that her 1918 Bachelor of Science has become in 1958 a Doctor of Humane Letters.
LLOYD VIEL BERKNER
President of Associated Universities, Inc.,Brookhaven Laboratory
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
A CAREER such as yours reassures both those who want and those who fear more science. Nights spent wide-awake in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, as a young amateur radio operator led to Antarctica with Byrd, to basic science with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to scientific armament for this nation and later for our NATO allies, to the leadership of our peaceful purpose atomic laboratories at Brookhaven and today, as an originator and guiding spirit of the International Geophysical Year, to the greatest international scientific project ever to affirm man's stake in both his "otherwiseness" and in the "likewiseness" of God's universe. A scientist who has learned his way by these twin wisdoms teaches us that science is but an ever sharper cutting edge that man's mind will use for better or for worse depending on the man. Dartmouth's confidence in man's purpose as well as his science is affirmed in the award to you of her Doctorate of Science.
CARL BRIDENBAUGH '25
Margaret Bryne Professor of United StatesHistory, University of California
DOCTOR OF LETTERS
DARTMOUTH graduate, class of 1925, Harvard Ph.D., you write fully realized history in which the past, like the present, is created day by day rather than date by date. Author of seven books focused on colonial America, you have distilled out of the daily life of that period fresh and significant understanding, as you put it, "of the revolt... against authority that we call modern times." All who seek to know more about the origins of this nation, the circumstances that bred its infectious independence, the stubborn continuity of its urban problems and even, perhaps, the depths from whence come the tides of popular passion on which the fate of democracy is borne, all such seekers are beneficiaries of your monumental scholarship on America's early cities. Your college knows no greater joy than the earned intellectual distinction of a son and it is twice joyful for the teachers of Dartmouth to honor one of our own who unites erudition and fine writing as a Doctor of Letters.
RICHMOND LATTIMORE '26
Professor of Greek, Bryn Mawr College
DOCTOR OF LETTERS
THE seed of your distinction was planted not at the American Academy in Rome, not at the University of Illinois, nor at Oxford, not even at Dartmouth, but rather in the home of parents who honored the life of the mind. Here on Hanover Plain out of an aspiration to athletic prowess, a classic major, and the writing of undergraduate verse you began that cultivation of excellence that has since become your hallmark as a teacher and pre-eminent translator of Greek poetry and drama. A society with less and less knowledge of the Greek language must look increasingly to you as a trustee for the conveyance to it of its own past. That this trust will be honored as befits the subject is promised in these words of your own poetry:
Live only to understand only the thing in your hand, the sight that sticks in your eye, the wish that sticks in your heart and will not let you be until it is made art.
Dartmouth rejoices in your return as a Doctor of Letters.
Carl Bridenbaugh '25, Litt.D.
Richard Lattimore '26, Litt.D.
Ray W. Smith '18, L.H.D.
Lloyd V. Berkner, Sc.D.
Theodor Heuss, LL.D.
Theodore M. Hesburgh, LL.D.
Devereux C. Josephs, LL.D.
Grayson L. Kirk, LL.D.
Colin F. Stam, LL.D.
