Kudos

As U. S. colleges spread themselves this year to salute with honorary degrees the wise, the rich and the merely acquiescent, the nation's oldest and most famed university last week plumped squarely for the wise. To Cambridge, Mass, for the culmination- of its 300th anniversary celebration in September, Harvard invited 66 top-flight pundits, so carefully hand-picked by President James Bryant Conant and his faculty that they furnished an international Who's Who of scholarship.

Chemist-President Conant, crack researcher in chlorophyll (the green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans Fischer of the University of Munich. A resounding roll of Nobel Prize winners included three physicists: Arthur Holly Compton (Chicago), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Werner Heisenberg (Leipzig); three chemists: Friedrich Bergius (Heidelberg), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Cambridge), Theodor Svedberg (Upsala, Sweden).

Other Harvard candidates: Astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (Cambridge); Historians Edward Samuel Corwin (Princeton) and Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff (Yale); Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (Technische Hoschschule, Zurich); Anthropologist Bonislaw Malinovsky (London); Philosopher Hu Shih (National University of Peiping).

Already kudized by Harvard but invited back for good measure were President-emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Philosopher John Dewey, Physicists Albert Einstein and Robert Andrews Millikan.

P: To Montreal's Loew's Theatre, McGill University marched for its annual convocation, for a farewell to stumpy, grizzled oldtime Humorist Stephen Leacock (Nonsense Novels). Retiring at 66 after 33 years in McGill's department of political economy, Humorist Leacock cheerfully became an L.L.D. Promised he: "When I go on the shelf I mean to stay there. ... From now on I shall reflect a lot and say nothing." P: Pet college of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who went to Harvard for three years, is Ogelthorpe University (Atlanta, Ga.) which in return for financial benefactions and a woodsy tract nine years ago gave Publisher Hearst his first university degree. Last week Ogelthorpe made a Doctor of Laws of Mr. Hearst's able, orotund, Red-baiting Atorney John Francis ("Jack") Neylan. Also homored with Litt.D's were Novelists Margaret Ayer Barnes and Thomas Sigismund Stribling.

P: Other kudos:

Columbia University
Sculptor John Angel ... Litt.D.
President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College ... L.L.D.
Retiring President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of Wellesley College ... Litt.D.

Fordham University (New York)
Chief Justice Frederick F. Crane of the New York State Court of Appeals ... L.L.D.
District Attorney Samuel J. Foley of The Bronx ... L.L.D.

Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati)
James Grover McDonald, onetime League of Nations Comissioner for German Refugees ... L.Heb. D.

Hobart College (Geneva, N.Y.)
President Harper Sibley of the U.S. Chamber of Comerce ... L.L.D.
President Alan Valentine of the University of Rochester ... L.H.D.

MacMuray College (Jacksonville, Ill.)
Alumna Lillian Hurlburt Gist, 81, who last year earned an M.A. at Claremont College (Calif.) (Time, June 10, 1935) ... Litt.D.
President Agnes Samuelson of the National Education Association ... Ed.D.

Moravian College (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Mrs. August Belmont ... Litt.D.

Russell Sage College (Troy, N.Y.)
Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of This Week ... L.H.D.

South Dakota State School of Mines (Rapid City)
Stratosphere Balloonist Orvil A. Anderson ... D.E.
Secretary Arthur Barrette Parson of American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers

The Staley College of the Spoken Word, Inc. (Boston)
Alumnus James Michael Curley, Governor of Massachusetts ... D.O.

University of Iowa (Iowa City)
Educator Abraham Flesner ... Litt.D.

University of Oregon (Eugene)
President-Elect John Duncan Spaeth of the University of Kansas City ... L.L.D.

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