Monday, Jun. 15, 1953
Kudos
Boston University
Charles Habib Malik, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lebanon in the U.S LL.D.
Edward A. Weeks Jr., editor of the Atlantic Litt.D.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. representative to the U.N LL.D.
Coe College
Bourke B. Hickenlooper, U.S. Senator from Iowa LL.D.
Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, former chancellor of Washington University D.Sc.
Columbia University
Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co LL.D.
John W. Davis, lawyer, 1924 Democratic candidate for President. LL.D.
Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress LL.D.
Jean Monnet, president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community. LL.D.
Citation: "France's leading economic planner; tireless and lifelong advocate of constructive relationships of honest men and honest governments . . . citizen whose vision transcends national boundaries in the interests of all free men and all free institutions."
Dickinson College
Douglas McKay, Secretary of the Interior LL.D.
Georgetown University
Carleton Hayes, historian, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Spain Litt.D.
Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati) Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times L.H.D.
Citation: "Worthy scion of a noble family, earnest and reverent Jew who has constantly upheld the ethical teachings of his ancestral faith and has striven consistently to strengthen the intellectual and social foundations of our country . . ."
Howard University
Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Vice President of India LL.D.
Branch Rickey, general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates LL.D.
Citation: "You brought Jackie Robinson into national baseball . . . A hundred years from today, when the young men of America are reading the history of American baseball, they will come upon the story of this great creative change . . . They will discover afresh that this great creative change arose out of the deeply religious heart of ... Branch Rickey."
Johns Hopkins University
Walter S. Gifford, former chairman of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's LL.D.
Citation: "A man of many facets, he labors diligently in behalf of cultural, scientific and humanitarian institutions . . . combining judgment with selflessness, he has never failed to accept his duty ... a man who exemplifies the true meaning of a university."
Kenyon College
Leverett Saltonstall, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts LL.D.
Citation: "In recognition of his New England decorum and quiet firmness in high office, his leadership in the American acceptance of world responsibility, and his probity in all matters concerned with the public weal."
Lincoln University
Pearl Buck, Nobel Prizewinning novelist L.H.D.
John S. Fine, Governor of Pennsylvania LL.D.
Jacob K. Javits, U.S. Representative from Manhattan's 21st Congressional District LL.D.
University of Nebraska Herbert Brownell Jr., U.S. Attorney General LL.D.
University of North Carolina
Robert Frost, poet LittJ).
Rutgers University
General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander, SHAPE. . .LL.D.
St. Lawrence University
Sherman Adams, assistant to President
Eisenhower LL.D.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, novelist Litt.D.
Trinity College
John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. . .LL.D.
Citation: "A man versed in law and the arts of government . . . [He] served as U.S. High Commissioner with such energy and steadfastness that he has been called the godfather of the Bonn Republic . . ."
Yale University
James W. Fulbright, U.S. Senator from Arkansas LL.D.
Citation: "You have made universities your debtor by forwarding the scholarships that bear your name. You have shown in the Senate ... the qualities of integrity, magnanimity and imagination which characterize a statesman."
James Thurber, humorist. . Litt.D.
Citation: "Creator of a whole gallery of real but incredible people, and a world of almost human animals, your generosity of spirit, independence of thought, and sense of the incongruous have combined to make you master of all the arts of comedy, champion of the wisely absent mind and the secret life . . ."
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