Kudos

U. S. colleges give honorary degrees 1) to honor the great and the near-great.

2) to get good commencement speakers.

3) to get benefactions. Their choices also reflect political changes and emergences of new public characters. Among the leading degree-getters of a year ago, with three degrees each, were Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, new Supreme Court Justice, and Stanley King, new president of Amherst College. The Republican administration was represented by Secretaries Mills. Adams and Wilbur, Vice President Curtis. Mrs. Hoover (two degrees) and President Hoover who in absentia got one more for his collection of 27.

This year Democrats naturally lead. Because of "pressure of affairs" President Roosevelt declined a Rutgers LL.D. but last week Secretaries Dern, Ickes. Perkins and Woodin had time to receive degrees (see below), the last after Syracuse Uni-versity had done some careful pondering. Its College of Fine Arts, oldest of its kind in the U. S., was celebrating its 60th anniversary. It had never given a degree to a nonprofessional, but at last it decided Secretary Woodin is a composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker Rainey and Budget Director Douglas were to speak at Amherst alumni reunions. Busy Mrs. Roosevelt officiated at two commencements last fortnight, at Malcolm Gordon School (Garrison, N. Y.) and Todhunter in Manhattan where she used to teach. Last week she received an LL.D. from Washington (D. C.) College of Law and gave counsel to its graduating class: "The greatest thing that life does is to give you experience and knowledge of other people." Kudos of the fortnight: Baylor University (Waco. Tex.)

Harvey Crowley Couch, president of Arkansas Power & Light Co., R. F. C. board member LL.D.

Bethany College (Bethany. W. Va.) Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri LL.D.

Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.) Harvard's Dean Kenneth Ballard Murdock LL.D.

Superintendent Gilbert Somers Perez of Vocational Education in the Philippines PD.D. Columbia University

David Prescott Barrows, onetime president of University of California Litt. D

Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet (The Waste

Land) Litt.D.

William Lyon Phelps Litt.D.

Rufus Matthew Jones, Quaker member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry S.T.D.

Lawyer Charles Gulp Burlingham LL.D.

Lawyer Charles Warren, historian of

the U. S. Supreme Court LL.D.

President Stanley King of Amherst College LL.D.

Lawyer Samuel Seabury LL.D.

Norman Hezekiah Davis (in absentia) LL.D.

Catawba College (Salisbury, N.C.) Dr. Archibald Henderson, biographer of George Bernard Shaw Litt.D George Washington University Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington Cathedral D.C.L.

Goucher College (Baltimore. Md.) Secretary Perkins LL.D. Grove City College (Grove City, Pa.) Headmaster Morgan Barnes of the Thacher School (Ojai Valley, Calif.) LL.D. Speaker of the House Henry Thomas Rainey LL.D.

Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney, Va.) Vice President Frank L. Jones of Equitable Life Assurance Society LL.D.

Lincoln Memorial University (mountain work-school at Harrowgate, Tenn.) Chaplain John Callahan of New York City's Tombs Prison D.D.

Rev. U. S. A. Heavener, student-pastor at the University of Maryland D.D.

Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar of Tennessee D.C.L.

Loyola University (Chicago, Ill.) Commander Italo Balbo, Italy's Air Minister, leading an Italian air squadron to the World's Fair (in absentia) LL.D.

Mother Mary Isabella, Superior General of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin, builder of Mundelein College for Women in Chicago LL.D.

New Jersey College for Women Mrs. Garret Augustus Hobart, widow of McKinley's Vice President Doctor of Philanthropy

Actress Edith Wynne Matthison Litt.D.

New York University Mrs. August Belmont, New York dowager Litt.D.

Governor Herbert H. Lehman LL.D.

President Harold Glenn Moulton of Brookings Institution LL.D.

Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, Rockefelle Institute physiologist D.Sc.

Dr. Fiske Kimball, director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art D.F.A.

Northwestern University (Chicago, Ill.)

Author Hamlin Garland (A Son of the Middle Border) Litt.D.

Professor Tsurukichi Okumara of Dental Science, University of Tokyo Sc.D.

Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist. .. .LL.D.

Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.)

Governor Lehman of New York LL.D.

Bernard Mannes Baruch LL.D.

Publisher Paul Block D.C.S.

Archibald Henderson Litt.D.

Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Princeton finance expert D.C.S.

Pennsylvania Military College (Chester, Pa.)

George Henry Dern LL.D.

Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania LL.D.

Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet Litt.D.

Dean Margaret Shove Morriss of Pembroke College, Brown University. .. LL.D.

Syracuse University

President Ernest I. Barott of the

Canadian Society of Architects D.F.A.

Dr. Walter Russell Bowie of Manhattan's Grace Episcopal Church S.T.D.

Frederick Trubee Davison LL.D.

Mark Graves, New York Commissioner

of Taxation & Finance LL.D.

Walter Hampden, actor Litt.D.

Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell S.T.D.

Secretary Woodin Mus.D.

University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Ark.)

John Gould Fletcher, poet (The Tree of

Life, Reveries of a Solitary) LL.D.

University of New Mexico

Mary Austin, author (Native Tales of

New Mexico, Earth Horizon) LL.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell LL.D.

University of Wyoming

Willis Van Devanter, U. S. Supreme

Court Justice LL.D.

Washington (D. C) College of Law

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt LL.D.

Washington & Jefferson College

(Washington, Pa.)

Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis

of Aluminum Co. of America LL.D.

Secretary Ickes LL.D.

Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.)

President IMoulton of Brookings LL.D.

Princeton's 15th

After President Edward Dickinson Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co. consented, as a loyal, energetic alumnus and trustee, to act as Princeton's president ad interim (TIME, May 30, 1932), the Princeton trustees continued to search the field and their feelings for a permanent successor to Dr. John Grier Hibben. Names mentioned ranged all the way from Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover down through a roster of eminent Princeton alumni to handsome young James Henderson Douglas, class of 1920, who made a name for himself as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the March banking crisis. When the trustees met again last week their hearts were heavy with the shocking death of President Emeritus Hibben (TIME, May 29). But at last their minds were made up. They sent a committee to the home of Dr. Harold Willis Dodds, 43, to inform him he was Princeton's 15th president.

Princeton men did not feel they knew Dr. Dodds very well, just as Harvard men last month did not feel acquainted with their new President James Bryant Conant (TIME, May 15). Between the two there is further resemblance. Both are cool, shrewd, quiet, bespectacled. Dr. Dodds is the youngest Princeton president since Aaron Burr (32)* in 1748 and Samuel Davies (36) in 1759. No other Princeton president save Woodrow Wilson has been a non-clergyman, but Dr. Dodds, like Wilson, is the son of a Presbyterian minister. Born in Utica. Pa. he grew up in Grove City and took his A. B. degree in 1909 at Grove City College. He studied at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, taught economics at Purdue, political science at Western Reserve. Lecturing at other colleges, he did not settle in Princeton until 1922 or join its faculty until 1925, becoming a full professor two years later.

Woodrow Wilson once defined a ''perfect place of learning" as one "frequented by sagacious men, debaters of the world's affairs." He also once urged the university to think of its destiny as "Princeton in the Nation's Service." That has been Dr. Dodds's line. His chair at Princeton was the one once held by Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield who became president of Williams College and founded the Williamstown Institute of Politics. Dr. Dodds has found as much to do outside Princeton as in. From 1920 until 1928 he was secretary of the National Municipal League, editing its Review until this year. He was a technical adviser to General Pershing on the Tacna-Arica commission and electoral adviser to the Nicaraguan Government. He has been called "the best known North American in Central and South America." though Princeton's Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, currency adviser to 13 nations, might well dispute this title. Nicaraguans remember how, to prevent repeating, Dr. Dodds caused the finger of every voting Nicaraguan to be dipped in a bowl of mercurochrome at the polls.

Three years ago Wilson's ideal of Princeton was furthered by the founding of the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs (TIME, March 3, 1930). Chosen chairman, Dr. Dodds developed the school as a coordinator of courses in modern languages, history, politics, economics, geography and public-speaking, with round-tables and lectures by outsiders. This week, during Commencement, the School will square off at ''Govern-mental Measures for the Revival of Business."

Author of Procedure in State, Legislatures and of many a treatise on municipal government, Dr. Dodds was for two years a member of the New Jersey Regional Planning Commission and is now chair-man of the Mercer County commission. Last March he declined appointment as State Emergency Relief Director. His biggest job in the past year was the survey Governor Arthur Harry Moore asked Princeton to make of New Jersey's Government. With 20 assistants, large, rough-haired, pipe-smoking Dr. Dodds worked four months without missing a class or lecture, turned in a 150,000-word report showing how savings of $14,000,000 could be made in the State's $50,000,000 budget.

Last week all the Princeton deans resigned, as is customary with a change of presidents. All were reappointed, one moved up. Faculty Dean Eisenhart, able mathematician, becomes dean of the Graduate School to succeed Dr. Augustus Trowbridge who resigned because of ill health. Successor as dean of the faculty is urbane, witty Robert Kilburn Root, English department chairman.

Andover's Fuess

Last week the Harvard Crimson headlined the news that curricular changes announced for Phillips Academy, Andover, forecast curricular changes for Harvard. Next autumn Andover will lighten its emphasis on modern and ancient languages, increase it on history, mathematics and science. The Crimson assumed that Andover's curriculum is based upon Harvard requirements. Ergo, Harvard would change too. Harvard officials quickly disabused the Crimson editors of their notion.

Andover's trustees have elected a new headmaster. Dr. Claude Moore Fuess (TIME, June 5) to succeed Headmaster Alfred Ernest ("Al") Stearns, resigned because of illness. No introductions were necessary; Dr. "Jack" Fuess, 48, has taught English at Andover since 1908. He became acting headmaster in March upon the death of Dr. Charles Henry Forbes, who had functioned during Dr. Stearns's absence. Bald, smooth-faced "Jack" Fuess (pronounced "Feece") has long edited the alumni bulletin and is secretary of the alumni fund. His fame reaches far beyond Andover as a scholarly biographer of Daniel Webster, Carl Schurz, Rufus Choate, Caleb Gushing. He is now working on a biography of Calvin Coolidge, though not an official one--Mrs. Coolidge has not given Dr. Fuess her late husband's papers. Mrs. Fuess changed his name to '"Jack" years ago because she could not bear "Claude." Once the late Poetess Amy Lowell asked him his real name. He told her. "Good Lord!" shouted the terrifying poetess, clapping one hand on his shoulder, the other on the shoulder of another guest. "Here's the time for tears. The three ugliest names in the world all here in this hallway. Claude and Amy and Ada!"

Tall, well set up, "Jack" Fuess went to Amherst where he roomed for a year with Bruce Barton and knew its present President Stanley King. He married an Andover girl. Elizabeth Gushing Goodhue (no kin to Grace Goodhue Coolidge), has a son, John Gushing Fuess, who will be Harvard's baseball manager in 1935. The Fuesses live in what they call "the ugliest house in the world," a drab, gingerbready place on Hidden Road in Andover. "Jack" Fuess plays good contract bridge, good golf. When he dubs he remembers his German ancestry and cries: "Drei hundert tausend donnerwetters!"

*Clergyman-father of the third U S. Vice President.

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