Monday, Jun. 15, 1931
Kudos
Berea College (Berea, Ky.)
Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, son of Berea's President William James Hutchins . . . LL.D.
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell . . . LL.D.
Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.)
Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U.S. . . . LL.D.
Columbia University (New York, N.Y.)
Jay Downer, chief engineer of the Westchester County Park Commission . . . Sc.D.
Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, dean of the faculty of Princeton University . . . Sc.D.
Charles Judson Herrick, professor of Neurology in the University of Chicago . . . Sc.D.
Arthur Dehon Little, chemical engineer . . . Sc.D.
Claude Moore Fuess, professor of English on the Elizabeth Milbank Anderson Foundation at Phillips Academy, Andover . . . Litt.D.
Francis Pendleton Gaines, president of Washington and Lee University . . . Litt.D.
Frank Porter Graham, president of the University of North Carolina . . . Litt.D.
Edna Ferber, novelist . . . Litt.D.
Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin . . . S.T.D.
Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. . . . S.T.D.
Seymour Parker Gilbert, Morgan-partner . . . LL.D.
Sir James Arthur Salter, economist . . . LL.D.
Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to Washington . . . LL.D.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, German Ambassador to Washington . . . LL.D.
Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.)
Owen Josephus Roberts, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court . . . LL.D.
Thomas Sovereign Gates, president of the University of Pennsylvania . . . LL.D.
Henry Prather Fletcher, chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission . . . LL.D.
Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington . . . LL.D.
Rt. Rev. Robert Nelson Spencer, Bishop of Western Missouri . . . D.D.
LeRoy McMaster, professor of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. . . . Sc.D.
Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.)
WilLam A. Schnadcr, Attorney General of Pennsylvania . . . LL.D.
Judge William N. Appel, brother of Franklin & Marshall's President Henry Harbaugh Apple* . . . LL.D.
Rev. Boyd Edwards, headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa. . . . LL.D.
Rev. E. S. Crosland, Bishop of the Moravian Church at Lititz, Pa. . . . D.D.
Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y.)
Richard Teller Crane Jr., president of Crane Co. . . . LL.D.
Oglethorpe University (Oglethorpe University, Ga.)
Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), newspaper adviser to lovelorn gum-chewers . . . Litt.D.
Harold Fowler McCormick, International Harvester . . . S.C.D.
Barron G. Collier, advertising . . . S.C.D.
Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer . . . LL.D.
Ivy Ledbetter Lee, publicity . . . LL.D.
Albert Edwin Smith, president of Ohio Northern University . . . LL.D.
Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, alumna & author . . . Litt.D.
Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of Crocker Foundation for Cancer Research . . . Sc.D.
William Henry Scott, 90, onetime president of Ohio State, now emeritus professor of philosophy . . . LL.D.
Pennsylvania Military College (Chester, Pa.)
Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of State . . . LL.D.
Owen Josephus Roberts, Associate Justice, U. S. Supreme Court . . . LL.D.
Cecil Blount De Mille, photoplay producer . . . Litt.D.
Hanson Edward Ely, Major General U. S. Army . . . M.S.D.
Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.)
Robert Edward Ringling, American operatic baritone . . . Mus.B.
Russell Sage College (Troy, N.Y.)
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, consulting engineer, mother of twelve . . . Sc.D.
Ruth Bryan Owen, Congresswoman, lecturer . . . L.H.D.
Rutgers University (New Brunswick. N.J.)
Emil Ludwig, German biographer & playwright . . . Litt.D.
Seymour Parker Gilbert, Morgan-partner . . . LL.D
Jan Herman Van Royen, Dutch Minister to the U. S. . . . LL.D.
St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.)
Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury . . . LL.D.
Richard Beatty Mellon, brother of the secretary and president of Mellon National Bank, Pittsburgh . . . LL.D.
Clarence Mott Woolley, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. . . . LL.D.
Rev. John Haynes Holmes . . . D.D.
Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N. J.)
Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology . . . Sc.D.
Roydon Vincent Wright, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers . . . D.E.
Irving Edwin Moultrop, chief engineer of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston . . . M.E.
Ralph Haxlett Upson, designer of the first successful metalclad airship, the ZMC-2 . . . Aeronautical Engineer
Syracuse University (Syracuse, N. Y.)
George Woodward Wickersham (Commission) . . . D.C.L.
Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow . . . D.C.L.
Charles Dana Gibson, artist . . . D.F.A.
William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney General . . . LL.D.
Judge Leonard Callender Crouch, Syracuse . . . LL.D.
William James Durant, syndicated philosopher . . . Doctor of More Humane Letters
Edmund Davison Soper, president of Ohio Wesleyan University . . . LL.D.
John Adams Kingsbury, social worker . . . LL.D.
William Henry Metzler, dean of the New York State College of Teachers . . . Sc.D.
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard (Mrs. Dave Hennen) Morris, leader in the International Auxiliary Language Association . . . Litt.D.
University of Missouri (Columbia Mo.)
Wilber Andrew Cochel, managing editor of the Weekly Kansas City Star . . . LL.D.
Manley Ottmer Hudson, international lawyer, member of the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations at Geneva . . . LL.D.
(Conferred during Journalism Week, May 3-9)
Chao-Chu Wu, Chinese Minister to the U. S. . . . LL.D.
University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Neb.)
Harold Van Buren Magonigle, Manhattan architect . . . Doctor of Architecture
Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor . . . LLGMD.
*Variant spellings of the family name.
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