Kudos

Postmaster General James Aloysius ("Jim") Farley accepted an honorary D.C.L. degree last week from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. "It's my first degree," cried he. "It was a beautiful ceremony." Then "General'' Farley, a Roman Catholic, flew back to Washington without hearing how he had almost failed to get his D.C.L. The trustees of famed, conservative Protestant Episcopal Sewanee had met in special session, with Episcopal Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor presiding. For every honorary degree unanimous consent was necessary. When ballots on "General" Farley's name were scrutinized, one looked like a squiggly, illegible "No." It was certainly not a "Yes." Then up spoke Trustee Arthur Crownover, according to campus gossip, to point out that the by-laws said an illegible ballot must be thrown out. "Then throw it out." said Bishop Gailor.

Kudos of the week:

Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) Engineer Lewis Warrington Chubb. Director of Westinshouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.'s research laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sc. D

Vice President Charles Arthur Brooks of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. . .D.B.A.

Methodist Bishop Adna Wright Leonard. LL.D. Honorary President Ezra Squier Tipple of Drew University. . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D.

Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) President Frank Lusk Babbott Jr. of Long Island College of Medicine. . . . LL.D.

Budget Director Lewis Williams Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, widow of Dwight Whitney Morrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D. Harvard Professor Arthur Stanley Pease, retired president of Amherst . .LL.D. Amherst Trustee Frank Waterman Stearns, friend of the late Calvin Coolidge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D.

Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, Ohio) Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Blackburn University (Carlinville, Ill.) Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood. . . . . . .Sc.D.

Brown University (Providence, R. I.) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Franklin Winslow Johnson of Colby College (Waterville, Me.). . . LL.D. Harold Higgins Swift, Chicago packer. LL.D. Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Actress Eva Le Gallienne . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Charles Albert Selden, London correspondent of the New York Times . . . . . M.A. Colby College (Waterville, Me.) Bainbridge Colby. Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.) George Leslie Harrison, Governor of New York's Federal Reserve Bank (in absentia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canada's Finance Minister (in absentia). . . . . . LL.D. Vice President Herbert Abram Baker of American Can Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. George Parmly Day, Yale University treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Robert Devore Leigh of Bennington College (Vt.) . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D.

Dartmouth College (Hanover, N. H.) Walter Johannes Damrosch . . . . . . . . . Mus.D. Poet Robert Frost (North of Boston New Hampshire). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. President Fred Arthur Howland of National Life Insurance Co. . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Sir George Halsey Perley, Canadian Minister without Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Board Chairman Walter W. Stewart of Case, Pomeroy & Co. . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Oberlin College (Ohio) Jerome Davis of Yale Divinity School. . D.D. Pianist Ernest Hutcheson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mus. D. Naturalist Herbert Spencer Jennings. . . Sc.D. Actress Edith Wynne Matthison . . . . . Litt.D. James Brown Scott, lawyer, peace-worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Princeton University Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Historian James Truslow Adams (The Epic of America) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Author Andre Maurois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Herbert Putnam, director of the Library of Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Samuel Seabury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D.

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Joseph Henry Beale, Harvard law professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President John Campbell Merriam of Carnegie Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. President Eugene Cornelius Sullivan of Corning Glass Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D.

University of Rochester (N. Y.) Samuel Seabury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.) Rufus Cutler Dawes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Dean Guy Stanton Ford of the University of Minnesota Graduate School . . . . . . Litt.D. Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Secretary of Labor Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Henry Charles Taylor, member of the Laymen's Foreign Mission Inquiry. . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

Yale University Authoress Pearl Sydenstricker Buck . . . . . . M.A. Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth . . . . . . . . M.S. Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist . . . . . . . . .M.S. Ernest Fremont Tittle, liberal Methodist preacher of Evanston, Ill. . . . . . . . D.D. Director Herbert Eustis Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Hugh Smith Gumming, Surgeon General of the U. S. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Harold Willis Dodds, President-elect of Princeton University. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. William Mills Maltbie, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.

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