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Education: Kudos: Jun. 26, 1964

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BOWDOIN COLLEGE

∙ George David Woods, president of the World Bank—LL.D.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

∙ Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec Province—LL.D. The leader of New Hampshire’s only foreign neighbor (Vermont being, as you may have heard, something else again).

∙ Eugene Rabinowitch, physical chemist, authority on photosynthesis—D.Sc. One of the universalists of our time.

∙ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, president and publisher, the New York Times—LL.D.

DETROIT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

∙ Donald J. Hardenbrook, chairman of the board, National Association of Manufacturers—D .Sc.

KALAMAZOO COLLEGE

∙ John Ciardi, poet—L.H.D.

∙ Clark M. Eichelberger, executive director, American Association for the United Nations—LL.D.

KEUKA COLLEGE

∙ The Rev. Theodore F. Adams, pastor, First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., former president (1955-60) of the Baptist World Alliance—LL.D.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

∙ Ralph J. Bunche, U.N. undersecretary —LL.D.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

∙ Edward W. Brooke, attorney general of Massachusetts—D.P.A.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

∙ Christian A. Herter, former U.S. Secretary of State, now chief negotiator in tariff talks at Geneva—LL.D. He has well represented America to the world, placing dignity of man above the narrow claims of nationalism.

∙ Frederick Seitz, physicist, president of the National Academy of Sciences—D.Sc.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE

∙ Charles Brackett, screenwriter, producer (Lost Weekend, The King and I)—L.H.D.

∙ Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State—LL.D.

∙ Rudolf Serkin, pianist—D.Mus.

YALE UNIVERSITY

∙ Julian P. Boyd, historian, editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson—L.H.D. Holding with Thomas Jefferson that “no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness” than “the diffusion of knowledge among the people,” you have by your masterly editing of his papers attained leadership in searching out and presenting the history of humanity.

∙ William Averell Harriman, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs—LL.D.

∙ Philip Caryl Jessup, Judge, International Court of Justice—LL.D.

∙ Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, hus-band-and-wife stage team—L.H.D.

∙ Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.,* director of the Peace Corps—LL.D.

* For whom this degree is the seventh of the season.

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