Honorary Degrees

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P: It would be impossible (for lack of space) for TIME to list all the important personages who received honorary degrees at U. S. colleges and universities this June. Below will be found a number of the more significant ones. It is not necessarily implied that either the institutions or the individuals listed are the "best."

AMHERST COLLEGE:

Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State LL.D.

BROWN UNIVERSITY:

Masanao Hanihara, Japanese Ambassador LL.D.

COLGATE UNIVERSITY:

Otto T. Bannard, New York banker LL.D.

Richard Washburn Child, diplomat, LL.D.

George Horace Lorimer, Editor Saturday Evening Post LL.D.

Hiram Percy Maxim, famed inventor Sc.D.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY:

James Truslow Adams, historian Litt.D.

Robert Bridges, Editor of Scribner's Magazine Litt.D.

Victor Fremont Lawson, Publisher Chicago Daily News LL.D.

Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury LL.D.

Adolph Simon Ochs, Publisher The New York Times LL.D.

Melville Elijah Stone, counselor of the Associated Press LL.D.

Booth Tarkington, novelist and dramatist Litt.D.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE:

Sir Arthur William Currie, McGill Univ. Principal LL.D.

Jean Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador LL.D.

Albert H. Washburn, Minister to Austria LL.D.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY:

Charles H. Peck, Surgeon Litt.D.

HAMILTON COLLEGE:

Ruth Draper, monologist M.A.

Alexander Woollcott, dramatic critic Litt.D.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY:

Robert Bridges, British Poet Laureate Litt.D.

William James Mayo, Surgeon Sc.D.

Owen D. Young, part-framer of so-called Dawes plan LL.D.

HOBART COLLEGE:

Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor, The New York World Litt.D.

KENYON COLLEGE:

Florence Kling Harding, wife of the late President LL.D.

(Degree had been conferred on President Harding but never actually received by him)

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE:

George H. Doran, publisher Litt.D.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY:

Sarah Cooper Hewitt, philanthropist L.H.M

Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Columbia University Professor of Electro-Mechanics LL.D.

Albert Shaw, Editor American Review of Reviews Litt.D.

Joseph Silverman, Kabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El L.H.D.

Albert F. Stoessel, Conductor New York Oratorio Society M.A.

Prince Waldemar of Denmark LL.D.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY:

John W. Davis, onetime Ambassador to England LL.D.

Charles A. Coffin, General Electric Co. organizer and first President LL.D.

Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State LL.D.

Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Columbia University Professor of Electro-Mechanics LL.D.

Edward Robinson, Director Metropolitan Museum of Art LL.D.

ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY:

Herbert F. Gunnison, Publisher Brooklyn Daily Eagle LL.D,

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY:

Julius H. Barnes, President U. S. Chamber of Commerce

Doctor of Bus. Adm. Henry S. Graves, Yale Dean of Forestry LL.D.

J. Herbert Quick, author Litt.D.

Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister LL.D.

Ray Lyman Wilbur, President Leland Stanford, Jr., University Sc.D.

TRINITY COLLEGE:

William Cameron Forbes, former Governor General Philippine Islands LL.D.

Winchell Smith, playwright Litt.D.

TUFTS COLLEGE:

Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, sculptor M.A.

Owen D. Young, part-framer of so-called Dawes plan LL.D.

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE:

Mrs. Hilda Libby Ives, child welfare worker M.A.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN:

Robert Bridges, British Poet Laureate LL.D.

Frederick A. Stock, Conductor Chicago Symphony Mus.D.

Orville Wright, pioneer inventor of heavier-than-air machines D.Eng.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA:

Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher LL.D.

Edward R. Stitt, Surgeon General U. S. Navy Sc.D.

WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY:

John Sanford Cohen, Editor and Publisher of Atlanta Journal LL.D.

YALE UNIVERSITY:

George Burton Adams, Yale Emeritus Professor of History LL.D.

Frederick Grant Banting, Insulin discoverer Sc.D.

Howard Carter, Egyptologist Sc.D.

Robert Frost, Vermont poet Litt.D.

Ossip S. Gabrilowitch, Conductor Detroit Symphony M.A.

David Kinley, President University of Illinois LL.D.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister LL.D.

John Russell Pope, Architect of Yale Buildings M.A.

Harlan Fiske Stone, Attorney-General LL.D.