Kudos

Bard College Chester Bowles, former Ambassador to India LL.D.

Citation: "Today we esteem you most for a quality that, if it partially explains your successes, dwarfs them all: your profound understanding of people."

Henri Peyre, Sterling professor of French at Yale University. Litt.D.

Citation: "You wield an angelic pen dipped in impish ink. A serious literary critic, you have delighted your readers and doubtless yourself by revealing the many and curious kinds of astigmatism that have beset generations of critics."

Brooklyn Law School Robert Wagner, mayor of New York City LL.D.

University of Minnesota

Walter H. Brattain, 1956 Nobel physicist who was one of the inventors of the transistor Sc.D.

Northeastern University

John L. Burns, president of Radio Corp. of America D.B.A.

Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prizewinning Civil War historian Litt.D.

Asa S. Knowles, president of the University of Toledo LL.D.

Julius Adams Stratton, chancellor of M.I.T LL.D.

Carl R. Woodward, president of the University of Rhode Island. LL.D.

Northwestern University

Christian A. Herter, Under Secretary of State LL.D.

George F. Kennan, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian, onetime Ambassador to the Soviet Union LL.D.

Citation: "As practitioner, historian, and theorist in the field of international relations, he has devoted himself to the strengthening of our international position through the exercise of informed and enlightened statesmanship."

Joseph Wood Krutch, critic. L.H.D.

Citation: "As philosopher--in 1929 in The Modern Temper--he brilliantly analyzed the condition of man in the modern world. Now in the 1950s, by the grace of his intellectual power, imagination and humanity, he has used it to the benefit of the whole world."

Leonard Bernstein, composer, conductor, pianist D.F.A.

Citation: "He has achieved the rare distinction of great popular success in the service of the highest ideals of his art."

Occidental College

U. Alexis Johnson, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia LL.D.

Princeton University

Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society and conservationist Sc.D.

Citation: "The country's flora and fauna ought now to award him a scroll inscribed with the fitting title, Curator Naturae. Failing that contingency, the Princeton species of Homo sapiens takes pleasure today in bestowing upon him [an] honorary degree."

Oswald Veblen, professor emeritus of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study Sc.D.

Citation: "If there is no royal road to geometry, there are highways to be built through its complex domains, and Veblen helped to build them."

Paul Joseph Sachs, professor emeritus of fine arts at Harvard University and expert on drawings Litt.D.

Thomas Marc Parrott, professor emeritus of English at Princeton. Litt.D.

Citation: "One who could never say with Shakespeare's Duke of Kent, 'I am too old to learn,' he is still alertly learning at the age of 90. For 70 of these 90 years, he has been 'a scholar and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading.' "

F. Cyril James, principal and vice-chancellor of Canada's McGill University LL.D.

Citation: "An architect of excellence, he takes as his guiding principle the conviction that any nation's greatest wealth lies in its intellectual commonwealth."

Frank W. Abrams, retired chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey. LL.D.

George W. Perkins, United States representative on the North Atlantic Council LL.D.

Allen Welsh Dulles, head of the Central Intelligence Agency LL.D.

Citation: "His vast knowledge of what other men can only guess at, his absolute and unflinching integrity, and his devotion to the ideals of public service have long deserved, and now most happily receive, this accolade."

Edward Chase Kirkland, professor of history at Bowdoin College. Litt.D.

Robert Lowry Calhoun, Pitkin professor of historical theology at Yale University D.D.

Harold W. Dodds, retiring president of Princeton LL.D.

Citation: "He has served us well with the infinite labors of a lifetime. As his name will be forever associated with a great epoch in the annals of Princeton University, so his character and deeds are graven forever in the hearts of all her sons."

University of Southern California Herbert Hoover Jr., former Under Secretary of State LL.D.

Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology.LL.D.

Suffolk University Leverett Saltonstall, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts D.P.A.

John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts D.P.A.

Union College and University Herbert Brownell Jr D.C.L. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr LL.D.

Yeshiva University Abba Eban, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S L.H.D.

Citation: "He performs no less a difficult task and no smaller a moral purpose than the immortal Benjamin Franklin performed during the early days of American independence as the U.S. Ambassador to France."

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