HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS
ROBERT KENNETH CARR '29 President of Oberlin College DOCTOR OF LAWS
As friends know and students learn, you were never one for short cuts or the easy way. Although Cleveland born, you made the thirty miles to Oberlin a fifty-year saga of preparation by way of Dartmouth, Harvard, Oklahoma and Washington, D. C. Lest any should imagine that a distinguished career in scholarship, teaching and as a leader in the cause of civil rights was after all the long but easy way, you confounded all the soothsayers by making the journey as a card-carrying member of the AAUP. And now that even this painstakingly paved route has led but to presidential perdition (and loss of your card), your College and your former colleagues join in commending you to your new constituency as academe's fulfillment of Plato's vision of ideal government. As in family and friendship you and Olive remain a part of us, Dartmouth's Doctorate of Laws goes forth with you as witness of our esteem and affection for you both.
ROBERT CHARLES HILL '42U. S. Ambassador to Mexico DOCTOR OF LAWS
NATIVE son of New Hampshire and Dartmouth man, Class of 1942, you personify the need of these Yankee parts to pre-empt for home use their natural resource of home-grown leadership. Since the North Country lost you to a wartime consulship in Calcutta, the agenda of your public service reads like the roster at a modern King Arthur's round table: Clerk of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency; Ambassador to Costa Rica; Ambassador to El Salvador; Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State; Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations; and since 1957, Ambassador to Mexico. In this great southern neighbor's land where historically, economically and culturally American policies must always be at issue, you have made your way and won respect for your country as few ambassadors ever do. In recognition of the commitment of self and the capacity for seeing the other fellow as he needs to be seen on which such achievements rest, your College enrolls you among those who hold of right her honorary degree, Doctor of Laws.
PETER KIEWIT '22Contractor; President ofPeter Kiewit Sons CompanyDOCTOR OF LAWS
BUILDER and tunneler to the world, when in some distant future age an archaeologist from outer space is mystified as to how the earth got to looking like a well-gnawed Swiss cheese, you, sir, will be the mighty mouse behind his puzzlement. For fifty years, first as water boy and long since as president of your company, you have been a builder in the best sense of that fine, old word. You began where all building begins, with yourself, and the proof of how well that job was done is written in the confidence you command in your home community of Omaha, in your far-flung enterprises, in your industry, and throughout the world wherever there is need for a man who can be counted on to produce what is required, be it a school, an atomic plant costing a billion, two hundred million dollars or, as now looms likely, that long postponed project of the ages, a tunnel beneath the English Channel. Reducer of miracles to matters of fact and a teacher by example that a man does what he is, you are an alumnus who serving both the means and the ends of education merits your College's confidence as Doctor of Laws.
WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR Lawyer; President-elect ofthe American Bar Association DOCTOR OF LAWS
YOUR career would delight the eye of a seeker after first causes: he would explain your willingness to defend a Georgia Negro named Herndon in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1937 on charges of radicalism by your education at Wisconsin during the days of the elder LaFollette; your current chairmanship of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace would be attributed to your having attended Columbia Law School under the pervasive presidency of that apostle of peace, Nicholas Murray Butler; and when it comes to your having sired a dean - well now, sir - yes or no
- were you not once a devotee of Palace vaudeville, and the old 42nd Street flea circus? However unlikely those explanations may be, it is a thing close to the heart of a free society that one of its foremost barristers and the chosen leader of its bar holds it to be his professional duty as well as his personal privilege to serve the first causes of our land, fairness and freedom, regardless of the unpopularity of the client's cause or the state of his credit. It does the American bar proud to have such a leader and Dartmouth doubly proud to admit him into her fellowship as Doctor of Laws.
BUDD SCHULBERG '36 Author DOCTOR OF LETTERS
RECALLING the enthrallment of your undergraduate editorship and the disenchantment that ensued from returning pen in hand to a halcyon winter Hanover, would you not enjoy coming to us today under a flag of literary truce? As for us, it is our purpose to say straight out, with no words barred, that the art of your good writing is important and admired by all who want their time to know its own beauty and its own hurt, in its own words but on the terms that all men face and no man sets. Your plots tell afresh the ancient truth that whether in the smother of success or the naked hurt of failure the timeless terms of man are never beyond protest. And you can say with your man Walt: "That's a good word. Yessir, I 'prove o' that word. I've done a little o' that m'self - protest." If any reader ask, where stands this writer as to the meanness he relates, did you not say in your introduction to Across theEverglades: "Among the prehistoric garfish and the dog-faced catfish and the submerging 'gators, lurks not only Caliban but God, for surely He is not only in the heavens but down there in the muck out of which the first life spawned." Your alma mater is privileged to acknowledge the art of an author son with her Doctorate of Letters.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Musical Director, New YorkPhilharmonic Symphony Orchestra;Pianist; Composer DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS
You come to us acclaimed beyond our enhancing and characterized beyond any embellishment. Few in any time have been portrayed with more varied contrivances of speech: you, sir, are described as "a lifelong allegro ... a nest of atoms in a cyclotron ... a leaky electric eel ... a Mickey Mantle of music (three years ago, that was)... a human gyroscope ... Presley of the Podium ... our musical Dick Tracy." No competition with such eloquence is here proposed. Our purpose is that honor which face to face is most palatable when less manifest than meant. Out of talent, conviction and the hard work of learning as well as performance you have created, shared and taught an enjoyment of music that except for you millions would never know. Such an enrichment of man's experience is not to be measured in adjectives. It is enough to know that he who creates joy enlarges the meaning of life. It is Dartmouth's joy to bestow on such a benefactor of the liberating arts her degree, Doctor of Humane Letters.
HADLEY CANTRIL '28
Psychologist; Chairman of the Institutefor International Social Research DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
DARTMOUTH graduate and Harvard Ph.D., you made your way to the fore as a social psychologist and as a pioneer on the frontier of the social sciences by being unintimidated by the unlikely while being at home with the likely. A teacher whose own appetite for learning inspirited undergraduate classrooms for a quarter of a century, a student of public opinion and social behavior whose insights have informed statesmen and scholars alike, a scholar whose sense of quest and unencumbered expertness made him a collaborator of Adelbert Ames in the reinterpretation of perception, since 1955 you have committed your talents and this experience to the work of making international understanding more a matter of supportable knowledge than of insufferable opinion. Dartmouth's pride in having her investment put to such use and her gratitude for the returns in kind you have made to her are here attested by the award of her Doctorate of Science, honoris causa.
RENE JULES DUBOS Microbiologist; Member of theRockefeller Institute of New York DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
IF science be the modern strategy of man's war on his ignorance, you sir, are today's prototype of the general who is himself an army. Born a Frenchman, naturalized an American, educated in both countries, beginning as a soil microbiologist, you have worked and taught and written in bacteriology, comparative pathology, tropical medicine, biochemistry, the ecology of disease and as the biographer, par excellence, of your predecessor in pioneering, Louis Pasteur. Twenty years ago, building on insights reported by Pasteur sixty years before, you opened the way into the medicine of antibiotics by showing that diseases could be treated by directly destroying their bacteria with germ-fighting drugs obtained from microbes. Your later studies of tuberculosis and other bacterial diseases led you from the laboratory to the library and to the arts in search of those factors in health that are more man than microbe. Abetted by a wife who also is at home with both bacteria and books, you give eloquent proof in your writings for scientists and laymen alike that science at its best is as liberating as any other strategy of the mind. Dartmouth's Doctorate of Science is a token payment on the account of a humanity which stands in your debt.
Robert K. Carr '29, LL.D.
Robert C. Hill '42, LL.D.
Peter Kiewit '22, LL.D.
Whitney N. Seymour, LL.D.
Budd W. Schulberg '36, Litt.D.
Leonard Bernstein, L.H.D.
Hadley Cantril '28, Sc.D.
Rene C. Dubos, Sc.D.
Honorary degree recipients at Commencement are shown with President Dickey.
