Monday, Jun. 28, 1954
Kudos
Harvard University
Grayson L. Kirk, President of Columbia University........ LL.D.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr...... LL.D.
Clarence Belden Randall, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Foreign Economic Policy LL.D.
Robert Schuman, former French Premier............... LL.D.
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, biographer of Barrett Wendell and George Bancroft........... Litt.D.
E. B. White........... Litt.D.
Citation: "Sidewalk superintendent of our times, voice of our conscience, literate exponent of the belief that humor ought to speak the truth." Paul Johannes Tillich, theologian . D.D.
Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary..... D.D.
Citation: '"His aim (has been) to prepare a ministry intellectually competent to meet the challenge of these days." Oberlin College Theodore E. Steinway, president of Steinway & Sons....... LL.D.
Citation: "At the time of the centenary last year, the Steinways had produced 342,000 pianos, used and abused by pian ists from Liszt to Rubenstein the Second.
In one of their concert grands, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. Theodore E. Steinway gives constant proof that out of great tension may come rich harmony." Edward R. Murrow.......LL.D.
Citation : "The cause of democracy and the cause of education are alike well served by one who advances evidence against epithet, clarity against confusion, objectivity against obsession, and frank discussion against the dullness of fear."
University of Pennsylvania
Willis E. Lamb Jr., professor of physics at Stanford University .... Sc.D.
Citation: "Your studies on the fine structure of the hydrogen atom have been responsible in a large measure for the recent progress in quantum electrodynamics."
Princeton University Charles Rufus Morey..... Litt.D.
Citation: "A pioneer and master in the fields . of Early Christian and Medieval art..." Henry Norris Russell...... Sc.D.
Citation: "A master among astronomers ... he has explored the 'star-sown voids of space' the confines of the mind and the reaches of the spirit." G. Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church............. D.D.
Citation: "Undaunted before those who questioned his right to say what he be lieved. A preacher whose labors have taught thousands the truth of Wesley's last with us.' " words: 'The best of all is, God is Eivind J. Berggrav, retired Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway . D.D.
Citation: "Confident that democracy rests on conscience guided by God, he with stood the Quisling government ... He summoned all Norway to stand, and hav ing done all to stand, proclaiming: 'The body they may kill ; God's truth abideth still Edgar O. Lovett, first president of Rice Institute............ LL.D.
Citation: "A Princeton professor who took an open space of Texas and turned it into a campus . . . Even Texans are not indignant that he is not indigenous. He has Texas." put Princeton deep in the heart of Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Chief justice of the NJ. Supreme Court . . . LL.D.
Citation: "Through the native patriotism of this man, we hear again the words of Webster: 'Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.' " Adlai E. Stevenson .......LL.D.
Citation: "An idealist who proudly walks in the Wilsonian tradition . . ." Nathan M. Pusey ........LL.D.
Citation: "Suspect as to lineage, born out of Boston. Above all a teacher ... A man of learning and faith ... In him, Veritas finds a fresh voice." University of Wisconsin Earnest A. Hooton, anthropologist, awarded the university's first post humous honorary degree . . . Litt.D.
Citation: "Universally recognized as one of the most original and stimulating spirits in his chosen branch of science . . ." Eudora Welty, novelist .... Litt.D.
Citation: "She has spoken to us through a multitude of hauntingly nostalgic personalities who live and move and have their being in the land of her unpretentious, highhearted fiction."
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