HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS

In 1955 as you began six years as President of the University of New Hampshire, speaking as a political scientist you said, "It would help if the training of future school administrators could include some more realistic treatment of political processes and the nature of 'the public'. . . ." No sage ever took himself more literally and in the process our State University was never better served. Beginning your mission to education as a high school teacher on graduation in 1929 from Indiana State Teachers College, thereafter going on to the Ph.D. at Wisconsin, seven years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ten years at the University of Oregon as professor of political science and Dean, you brought to the leadership of New Hampshire's Land Grant institution a public as well as a professional philosophy. Thanks to that philosophy, when last year you went on to another lonely leadership as the first President of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, you left a vastly strengthened university, a community more aware of its university as a part of itself and, above all, the record of a man who has the distinction of having added his own hard-minted mite to humankind's treasury of integrity, courage, and the pursuit of truth. In gratitude therefor Dartmouth awards you her honorary Doctorate of Laws.

Mr. Secretary-General, the coming together of 51 nations as the United Nations in 1945 was accompanied by much soothsaying, but not even the most awesome foreteller among either the pessimists or the optimists of that rather recent day revealed to us that there was at that moment in Japanese-occupied, colonial Burma a high school headmaster who seventeen years later would be the unanimous choice of 103 nations to lead the U.N. through its darkest hour of doubt. That hour was well served by your leadership, and yet only now do we begin to see the larger significance of your election as a momentous harbinger of today's last best hope that freedom's evolution, both nationally and internationally, can outrun desperation and disaster. You in person and performance mean these great things to all of us, your fellow men, and we made bold to bid you here today just to say on behalf of those to whom the Charter still first refers, namely, "We the Peoples of the United Nations," that even though you walk your daily duty under the wary eye of governments one hundred-fold, you will not walk alone. It is Dartmouth's honor to bestow on one who bears the heaviest teaching load of all, education's highest tribute, the honorary Doctorate of Laws.

Dartmouth graduate, Class of 1922, having become a Vermonter by transfer from Massachusetts you might reasonably be expected to have the taciturnity of a convert, but as a Federal Judge who presides over New York and Connecticut lawyers, as well as Vermonters, you have need of words. Befitting one who sits on the second circuit bench, the straight-grained words of your opinions reveal the judge as well as his judgment: a judge who upholds a criminal's conviction while acknowledging that certain comments of the trial judge "would have been better left unsaid," a judge who in a difficult case reverses a murder conviction and says straight out it does "not sit well on the consciences of civilized men to do otherwise; in fine, a judge who is wise today because holding the past in his custody he is concerned for tomorrow. Leader in its golden anniversary year of the foremost group of the American bench and bar devoted to promoting the efficient administration of justice, you personify what is meant by a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.

It would be bravery to pretend that the triumph of your life can light the way for most of us, but your example does teach our time that a determined man can be more than a match for the meagerness of his own existence, the meanness of other men, and the corrosion of his own soul. Born to intimacy with river rats and social rejection in the "Bottoms of Knoxville, Tennessee; a refugee from home in order to be permitted to claw and starve your way through school on your own; a graduate of Lincoln University and Union Theological Seminary thanks to forgery, friends, and an abortive lynching; just twenty-five years after your ordination you are known to the world as a pastor whose ministry gathered one of the great interracial congregations of the nation, created a unique cooperative social service in Harlem, and aroused the conscience of the American campus to its stake in human brotherhood, whether in the mirage of a white America or the harsh realities of a black Africa. Even a brother Presbyterian might doubt whether all this could be predestined, but there is no doubting the debt our time owes to one whose life enlarges both man's reach and his grasp. In witness whereof Dartmouth confers on you her honorary Doctorate of Divinity.

It doubtless is cold comfort to you to have proved your great predecessor, Dr. Samuel Johnson, wrong when he described "a compiler of dictionaries" as a "harmless drudge." How we should all enjoy having you put the good doctor to the test with a hard lexicographer's left to the learned chin - "what do you mean, harmless!" Never have so many words called down on an editor's head so many more. The cries of editorial distress from the canyons of New York could hardly have been more shrill if you had dropped your unabridged product in carload lots from the Empire State Building at high noon rather than selling it across the counter, copy by copy, for forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. We here, as elsewhere and in other times, are not as one in our view as to whether St. Philip the lexicographer should slay the dragon or put him in the zoo, but we pay admiring tribute to you for the professional performance of a monumental service to all who have need to know the English language as it is used today. Dartmouth graduate, Class of 1922, Harvard M.A., and Columbia Ph.D., your career as teacher, scholar, and editor does honor to your alma mater, in testimony whereof she awards you her honorary Doctorate of Letters.

An earlier generation than the Class of 1963 would surely have expected one with your historically suggestive name to be finding himself in darkest Africa rather than in high-energy physics. Under the influence of a remarkable teacher of physics, Professor Tileston of Pomona, himself a Dartmouth product, you crossed the country to begin the advanced study of physics at Dartmouth where in 1928 you earned the MA. degree and appointment to the faculty as instructor in physics. Both your earlier recruitment from chemistry and your later course as a physicist show through in your Master's thesis on file in Baker Library, "Effect of a Magnetic Field on the X-ray Diffraction Patterns of Solutions on Magnetic Salts." In 1931 as a student and collaborator of Lawrence on the development of the original cyclotron, you found the Dr. Livingston you were seeking (dare we say it?) in brightest California. Since then as author of some sixty research publications and the book High Energy Accelerators, as the principal designer of Brookhaven's cosmotron, and now as Director of the six-and-a-half-billion-volt Cambridge Electron Accelerator, you have become the nation's Number 1 disturber of the peaceful atom. A man of international repute both for your science and your leadership of scientists as concerned men, Dartmouth deems you an exemplary Doctor of Science, honoris causa.

Your Excellency, the State you grace as Governor has not at all times and in all things manifested an unqualified attachment to King George the Third, but this College which through the good offices of your colonial predecessor, Governor John Wentworth, was created by Royal Charter in 1769, rejoices that the mandate of His Majesty regularly brings to her Board of Trustees the Chief Executive of the State to which she owes proud allegiance. And let the record show that our delight is far from ex officio when the late George's foresight also brings to the service and family of the College one who both by personal qualification and commitment exemplifies the purpose and principles of education. We will of course regret it if unhappily other ex officio duties require you to worry overmuch, as we are told Dartmouth's early trustees did, whether the people are gambling too much or too little in the cause of education, but sufficient unto each day its own perplexities. Today Dartmouth delights to bestow on you the traditional token of her trusteeship, the honorary degree, Master of Arts.

Dartmouth man, Class of 1943, it's a great day for the race when a nice guy finishes first. When that first is against the sea as well as all who come by sea, and the victory must be won in the minds and hearts of ten superbly trained crewmen before it can be sailed at sea, he who stands that helm is indeed a master supreme of both boat and self. Your college glories to have a son whose mastery does all men proud. Henceforth on land or sea Dartmouth's Master of Arts, honoris causa, is your rightful ensign.

ELDON LEE JOHNSON President, Great Lakes Colleges Association;President, University of New Hampshire, 1955-1961 DOCTOR OF LAWS

U THANTSecretary-General, United NationsDOCTOR OF LAWS

STERRY ROBINSON WATERMAN '22 Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit;President, American Judicature Society DOCTOR OF LAWS

JAMES H. ROBINSON Director, Operation Crossroads Africa DOCTOR OF DIVINITY

PHILIP BABCOCK GOVE '22 Editor-in-Chief, Webster's Third New International Dictionary DOCTOR OF LETTERS

M. STANLEY LIVINGSTON Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Director, Cambridge Electron Accelerator DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

JOHN WILLIAM KING Governor, State of New Hampshire MASTER OF ARTS

EMIL MOSBACHER JR. '43Businessman; Skipper of the Weatherly, Winner of the America's Cup, 1962MASTER OF ARTS