HONORARY DEGREE CITATIONS

Your life is testimonial that faith, hard work, and perseverance can overcome all obstacles. You were born of slave parents who could neither read nor write. Fleeing the South, your parents came to Massachusetts with total assets consisting of seven children and ten dollars in cash.

You started a new century by coming to Dartmouth, entirely on your own. Your very active undergraduate career was capped by that memorable football game in which you helped to spoil the opening of Harvard Stadium. To show that there were no hard feelings, you returned to Harvard the next year to study law. You worked your way through law school by coaching football, and then entered academic life. At Morehouse College and Alabama A & M you taught economics, sociology, history, and Latin.

During World War I you went to France with a YMCA unit. After your return you settled down in Boston to a distinguished law career which you combined with far reaching service to the community. We note your long and devoted service on the Massachusetts Parole Board, to which you were appointed by nine different governors, and eventually as chairman.

Concern for your fellow man continued to occupy your energies after retirement. You are a recognized leader of the Baha'i Faith, and you have traveled all over the world, at your own expense, in the interest of that religion. You believe very deeply that the establishment of universal justice and freedom requires the spiritual and moral awakening of all people.

Dartmouth is proud today to honor a son who has witnessed more than one-third of her 200-year history, by awarding you the honorary Doctorate of Laws.

You prepared for a career in industry by studying Greek and Latin at Yale, by working for an advanced degree at Oxford, and by playing a Stradivarius violin. Coming from the Hoosier Heartland of Conservatism, you have called on business to become the revolutionary instrument for social reform and change.

You are a man who practices what others preach. As chief executive of a large corporation you have been in the forefront of the fight against racial discrimination and pollution. Deeply committed to the Christian Ethic, you became the first lay president of the National Council of Churches of Christ. You helped to organize the original civil rights March on Washington." You urged the extension of the minimum wage law to a million migratory workers. You worked to eliminate illiteracy all over the world. With a clear insight into the needs and frustrations of our times, you urged students to become deeply involved in university affairs. As a leading member of the Establishment you do not want to sink the boat, but you are certainly not afraid to rock it!

Dartmouth College is privileged to acknowledge you. powerful appeal to social conscience by awarding you her honorary Doctorate of Laws.

Poet, painter, and for 33 years a beloved teacher at Dartmouth. You were born in New York City, educated in Paris and Toulouse, and fell in love with French literature and the Provencal troubadours.

Your course on Marcel Proust was famed at the College. You prepared for it year after year by rereading his Remembrance of Things Past, in its entirety, to search for a nugget that might have escaped you.

You were a combat pilot in World War I, where General Pershing bestowed on you the Silver Star for exceptional valor. But your bravest moment may have come six years ago when you took that Silver Star—which you had expected to have buried with you—and sent it to the President of the United States to protest his escalation of the war in Vietnam.

Your most recent act of heroism was the creation, during a grave illness, of your astonishing epic poem MaximumSecurity Ward. Few writers have practiced their art with such quiet modesty, a modesty that has made you the gentle friend and wise mentor of Dartmouth poets.

The institution which you have served for so long and so well would like to contribute to your well deserved accolades by awarding you the honorary Doctorate of Letters.

For most men the opportunity to arrange and conduct for Marlene Dietrich would have fulfilled the ambition of a lifetime; for you it was no more than a curtain-raiser. Millions are grateful for the fact that being too small to play football you reluctantly turned to music as a career.

Although trained in classical music at McGill, you are following in the footsteps of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern. You are a kind, hardworking unassuming perfectionist. You possess a truly original mind and a gift for unifying into a provocative and sophisticated style widely disparate elements from the many strains of the music of today. Your haunting melodies do not follow accepted rules and conventions, but you have succeeded in convincing us that it is all the other popular composers who are out of step.

Your songs appeal not only to the young, but to song- loving people in every generation and every part of society Indeed, it is the breadth of your popularity that sets you apart from all your fellow composers. None of your predecessors knew a world so divided; none of your contemporaries knows how to bridge so many of the divisions. What the world needs now is your music.

Dartmouth College is pleased to acknowledge the happiness you have brought into our lives by awarding you her honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

Distinguished son of Harvard University, your life is best described through the words of another Harvard historian, Henry Adams, who said: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence ends."

An ardent outdoorsman, master of the crosscut saw, inspired teacher, you have influenced the lives of countless generations of students at the Brooks School and Phillips Exeter Academy. Beyond that, through your highly successful books on History and your leading role in bringing about the Advanced Placement Program, you have influenced the lives of millions of high school students. Among your many civic activities most notable are your efforts to make the New Hampshire State Legislature more effective.

You have said that your strongest belief is "faith in man's essential reasonableness and altruism." All your works give testimonial to that faith.

Dartmouth is happy to welcome into its fellowship a great teacher and humanist by awarding you her Doctorate of Humane Letters, honoris causa.

You have had separate careers in a staggering number of fields, as lawyer, political economist, member of the Swedish Senate and the Swedish Cabinet, an adviser to governments and the United Nations, and above all as a writer. If Paul Bunyan had been a scholar, he would have been like you: ranging the globe, picking problems too big and too frightening for anyone else to tackle, and writing books that shook the world.

In 1944 your book An American Dilemma succeeded Inhere native authors had failed in forcing white America to look at what it had done and was doing to black America, After seeing the worst of us, you had the courage to believe at there was a national conscience that could be aroused and would redress wrongs and reunite the nation. Since that time we have been acting out a script that you wrote.

Several careers later comes your second monumental study, Asian Drama. In considering the countries of hern Asia, trapped in permanent poverty through clmiate, overpopulation, and debilitating tradition, you demonstrate your readiness to shatter all preconceptions, including your own. Your unique combination of compassion and hard-headed realism once more forces us to face a tragic problem stripped of all illusions.

Dartmouth College is proud of our previous tie, your use of Baker Library in writing An American Dilemma. We now invite you to become a member of the Dartmouth Family by accepting the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa.

Scientist, teacher extraordinary, churchman and diplomat, Dartmouth is proud to have you as one of her sons.

A pioneer in new methods of chemical research, you are a world-renowned authority on the subject of catalysts. You have served your country as a trusted adviser to government and industry, and have become the leading expert on Soviet science. At the same time you turned your boundless energy to the task of exposition of modern science. Your talents as a teacher are testified to by many generations of Princeton freshmen, by Phi Beta Kappa, by Sigma Xi, and by Nikita Krushchev.

Son of a distinguished head of the Russian Orthodox Church in America, you have carried on your religious heritage as chaplain to Princeton students who share your faith. You have carried on your linguistic tradition as lecturer in Russian language and history.

You have served your Alma Mater in such diverse capacities as manager of the freshman football team, as a member of the Faculty, and member of the Alumni Council. But you have served Dartmouth in a deeper sense through your service to mankind: you have been a leader in establishing and maintaining the dialogue between East and West on which rests our hope of mutual understanding and peace.

Dartmouth salutes your enthusiastic and useful life by awarding you her honorary Doctorate of Science.

You followed your distinguished brother to Dartmouth, to the Steele Chemistry Laboratory, and to Princeton. However, World War II called upon you to contribute to and witness the dawning of the atomic age. And, like an electron, you were captured by the attraction of the nucleus; for nuclear science has remained your main interest ever since. Your far-reaching contributions have been recognized through membership in the National Academy of Sciences, through the Lawrence Memorial Award, and the Atoms for Peace Award. But the most dramatic incident in your long and rewarding career came when Surveyor 5 carried a small gold-plated box of your design to the surface of the moon. From the coded messages it sent back to you, you were able to analyze the composition of the surface of the moon. This was truly one of the most spectacular achievements of modern science. And it is uniquely appropriate that it was a Dartmouth man who first analyzed the composition of that green cheese!

In proud recognition of your many important achievements, your Alma Mater awards you her degree of Doctor of Science.