Kudos

Every year at Commencement time most U. S. colleges give honorary degrees.* Last week the following colleges gave the following degrees to, among many others, these:

Baylor University (Waco, Tex.)

Arthur Mastick Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture ... LL.D.

Joseph Francis Rock, botanist. ... LL.D.

Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland)

William Weber Coblentz, physicist of the U. S. Bureau of Standards ... Sc.D.

Columbia

Edward Dean Adams, banker ... Sc.D.

Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl, M. P. ... LL.D.

Very Rev. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine ... Doctor of Sacred Theology

Cass Gilbert, president National Academy of Design ... Litt.D.

William Gillette, actor ... Litt.D.

Charles Summer Hamlin, member of Federal Reserve Board ... LL.D.

Furman University (Greenville, S. C.)

Francis Pendleton Gaines ... LL.D.

General Theological Seminary

Very Rev. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine ... Doctor of Sacred Theology

Rt. Rev. Dr. Albert Sidney Thomas, Bishop of South Carolina ... Doctor of Sacred Theology

Howard University (Washington, D.C.)

Editor William Edward Burghardt Du Bois of the Crisis ... LL.D.

Robert Russa Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute ... LL.D.

Jewish Institute of Religion (Manhattan)

John Haynes Holmes, Unitarian minister, editor of Unity ... D.D.

Henrietta Szold, Zionist ... Doctor of Hebrew Letters

Lucien Wolf, London Jewish diplomat, journalist ... Doctor of Hebrew Letters

Lafayette College (Pa.)

John Huston Finley, an editor of the New York Times ... LL.D.

Dean R. C. Hutchison of the American College at Teheran, Persia ... D.D.

Major General John Archer Lejeune, U. S. M. C., retired ... LL.D.

Owen Josephus Roberts, Supreme Court Justice ... LL.D.

Oglethorpe University (Atlanta)

Publisher Victor Henry Hanson of the Birmingham News, Ledger and Age-Herald ... Litt.D.

Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman of Georgia ... LL.D.

Percy Selden Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store) ... Comm. Sc.D.

Ouatchita Baptist College (Arkadelphia, Ark.)

Governor William J. Holloway of Oklahoma ... LL.D.

University of Florida

Orestes Ferrara, Cuban Ambassador to the U. S ... LL.D.

University of Missouri

Frank Pierrepont Graves, President of the University of the State of New York, State Commissioner of Education ... LL.D.

Chancellor George Reeves Throop of Washington University (St. Louis). ... LL.D.

Wake Forest College (N. C.)

Author James Boyd (Drums, Marching On) ... Litt.D.

Francis Pendleton Gaines, retiring president ... LL.D.

Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina ... LL.D.

Julian Emmett Yates, chief Chaplain U. S. A. ... D.D.

Washington & Jefferson College

Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania ... LL.D.

Moises Saenz, onetime Mexican Sub-Minister of Education ... Sc.D.

*Notable exceptions: University of Virginia; Cornell.

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