PRESIDENT KEMENY (Princeton '46, Ph.D. '49),

shown wearing his Princeton doctoral gown at Commencement, was honored by his alma mater with the honorary Doctorate of Laws on June 8, when he returned for the 25th reunion of his class. One week earlier he received the honorary Doctorate of Laws from Columbia University.

President Goheen, with whom Mr. Kemeny started his teaching career at Princeton, conferred the LL.D. degree with this citation:

"After a brilliant undergraduate career, he graduated at the head of his Princeton class and remained here to perform the rare and reassuring feat of combining teaching in both the philosophy and mathematics departments. Since then his academic life has often been absorbed by tearing down those artificial barriers which have separated the disciplines of learning and creating in their place vantage points to discover on the horizons of knowledge new directions in the life of the intellect. As Dartmouth's president he constantly seeks to adapt education in an age of lightning change to all including the disadvantaged, and to adjust traditional habits of thinking to the needs and aspirations of young people. Students want to be heard, and he has heard them."

The Columbia citation by President McGili said, in part:

"As administrator, you built a distinguished mathematics department at Dartmouth and now, still young, you embark on a new career, that of steering a great institution of learning through a turbulent period in the nation's history and one of complex and rapid change and enormous opportunity for higher learning. You have now ample opportunity to display your varied talents as president of a sister institution, and those of us who are observing your leadership do so in confidence that your statesmanship and wisdom will have wide influence on others confronted with similar challenges."