Kudos

Another week of commencements--frolicking reunions, young people putting diplomas into trunks or tin tubes with varying reverence, older people wondering whether to put honorary degrees into picture frames.

Among the honorary degrees (kudos) awarded last week were:

Harvard University

Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, LL. D.

General Tasker Howard Bliss, U. S. Army (retired), LL. D.

Sir Josiah C. Stamp, British industrialist, statistician, LL. D.

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Chief Justice, New York Court of Appeals, LL. D.

University of Michigan

Nicholas Longworth, Speaker, House of Representatives, LL. D.

Frank William Taussig, economist, LL. D.

Willis John Abbot, editor, Christian Science Monitor, D. Humane Letters.

University of Wisconsin

Walter Lippmann, editorial writer, New York World, LL. D. Maude Adams, actress, Litt. D.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress, Litt. D.

Amherst College

Henry Sloane Coffin, President, Union Theological Seminary, LL. D.

Williams College

Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, LL. D.

Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.)

Rear Admiral William H. G. Bullard (retired), chairman, Federal Radio Commission, D. Sc.

Smith College

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, chamber music patron, M. A.

Jean Kenyon MacKenzie, author, missionary, M. A.

Alice Hamilton, only woman ever invited to Harvard Medical faculty, D. Sc.

Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Me.)

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, publisher, LL. D.

University of Rochester

Michael Idvorsky Pupin, inventor, LL. D.

Yale University*

Richard Evelyn Byrd, aviator, M.A.

Charles Lanier Lawrance, president, Wright Aeronautical Corp., M. A.

Tufts College* (Medford, Mass.)

Arthur Atwater Kent, radio manufacturer, inventor, D. Sc.

Edith Nourse Rogers, Congresswoman from Massachusetts, M. A.

Dartmouth College*

George Fisher Baker, banker, LL. D.

*In addition to the honorary degrees listed in TIME, June 27.