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The texts of the citations for
the eight honorary degrees lot-,
low:
Doctor of Laws
'JULIUS OCHS ADLER, Vic,-
President and General Manager
of The Neivalrork Times, Majoi
General of the United States
Army Reserva, and recently re-
tired Commanding General of
the Seventy-seventh Infantry,
Division; alum-tam of Lasvrehca-f
vale, Priaceton,,and Plattsburg;
as civilian-soldier and soldier-
. civilian he has served this coun-
try these past forty years with
both pen and sword gallantly,
vigorously, and triumphantly,
thereby earning the applause of
a grateful , Nation. In further-;
ance Of timationored family
service traditions, both military;
and journalistic, following post-I
collegiate Plattsburg training
? he saw frontline action in the;
bitter fighting ? in France of
? World War I for which he
was repeatedly decorated, there-
after won steady advancement
through the Reserve Corps to
double-starred rank, served in-
terMediately as civilian aid to
the War Secretariat, re-entered
active militara duty in 1940,
and discharged brilliantly both
States-side and Pacific Theatre
commands of critical exigence.
in World War II. Pari passu,'
his service as newspaper execu-
tive the past four decades has
been of vital inciaenee in mak-
iag The New York Times, at
the advent of its second cen-
tary, one of the strongest insta
talons in thd annals of journal-
ism. Citizen extraordinary,
Occupying _pasta !of the highest
civic copcernrdia is presented
for the doctoral*. of Laws.
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Doctor ALBERT CO , Chief Judge
All Law
of theaCouit'af Appeals of the
State of New York, is presented
for the honorary degree of
Doctor of ' Civil Law. Yielding
to none in 'pride of Brooklyn
nativity where he is still an
old-time resident, he has magni-
fied the glory of that redoubt-
able borough by forty years and
more of unblemished conduct
at the bar and on the bench,
and in such occasional sorties
&as assistant _district attorney,
I Doctor of Humane Letters
ls,W school professor, and sta
superintendent of insuranc ,DAVID DODDS HENRY, prime
product of Pennsylvania and
Enjoying, bipartisan suppor its State University, who him-
throughout the quarter century
of his career as a judge, he com-
mands universal respect for his
ability, integrity, and steadfast
devotion to the administration
of justice. Oft-spoken champion
of more adequate legal aid for
ation for ore tris t hinot limited
s:sconsider-
to the legal, prefesdion but is,
evidenced,as well in the many
charitable activities that enjoy
his sympathetic interest and
support. A courtly American in?
every respect gracing the lead-
ership of the highest tribunal !
of this State,, he epitomizes a;
refreshing political creed in his'
insistence that "we must think'
and talk not of what America;
makes, but of the things which'
make America."
Doctor of Stiened
ALLEN BALCOM DU MONT,
of French Huguenot extrac-
tion, founder and president of-
the electronics laboratories,
which bear hist name and
head of the Du Mont Televi-
sion Network, inherited a bent ,
for industrial achievement and
stands foremost among those !
responsible for the existence '
today of commercial television.
Even before graduatian from!
Rensselaer Poly3c Insti-
tute in -1924 hI Itad delved
deeply into the mysteries of
electricity, plied the seas as
a- licensed telegraph operator
and built and operated his own
radio transmitting station.
While still in college he be-
came interested in the then
embryonic cathode ray tube.
The perfection of that instru-
ment. the heart of the miracle
of television and the final link
in the marvel of radar, has
been declared the most far-
reaching of his many contribu-
? tions to science. Early asso-
ciated with the Westinghouse
Lamp Company and later with
. , the De Forest Radio Company,
less than twenty-five years
ago he set up shop for himself,
in the basement of his own
home- and, through persistent
courage. weathered adversity
and piloted the homespun en-
terprise to great affluence.
Ingenious inventor, resourceful
executive, sagacious business
man, enthusiastic yachtsman,
he is presented for the doctor-
ate of Science.
self has well earned the sobri-
quet of that Commonwealth
in a keystone role in more
than one educatioaal struc-
; yre; scholar and former teach-
of English' literature. some-
me assistant superintendent
of public instruction of the
.'tate of Michigan, past Presi-
teat of the Association of
Urban Universities and a fore-
most leader in the advance-
aient of educational television,
President of Wayne University.
from 1945 to 1952, and since
then Executive Vice Chancel-!FAIRFIELD OSBORN, an irre-
lor of New York University. , deemable Princetonian, the son
he is now perhaps best known of a famous paleontologist, was
as President-elect of the tini- swaddled in academic sheepskin ,
versity of Illinois. and we on the campus arid weaned on
would bid him Godspeed with; the' baccalaureate- in 1909. An
our honorary doctorate of overseas Captaln of Field Ara
Humane Letters -- "humane tinny in World War I, he quit
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letters" because he is sinau-1 the rolling caissons for the
lady blessed with the graces ravenous coffers of Wall 'Street,
of humanity and suffused With and until 1935 was immersed in
the virtues of literature. New the investment business. It was
York University owes much to then that the home-grown pro- '
the University of Illinois. and pensity for natural science
we surrender Dave Henry to turned his career irrevocably in
the Illini as a payment on ac- that direction. In 1940 he as-i
count, confident that given sumed the mantle of the .presia
half a chance he will dis- dency of the New York Zoologa!
charge the debt with inte.rest cal Society once worn by hW
compounded in the course of father, its- founder. Eight yrs'
Dectof L11.1114 ? deney of the Conservation Foun-
dation,. Leading world figure in;
pa the erucial effort to arrest the I
headlong dissipation of the
earth's natural reiources, an&
apthor of key treatises of the
cate, rowed as captain of his
utmost significance on the suba
crew and excelled in such
ject, devoting his life unselfish-
ly and unsparingly to a vast
carryover sports as free-for-all
educational effort toward pr -
"lati'
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Security Council. Square-
lrlfietion that
America's only hope for sur-
vival is in unified effort for
peace backed by firm interna-
tional agreement to combat
aggression, he graces the
launching platform of the
U. N. as a self-guided missile
with a homing instinct, primed
for a global trajectory, and
well laden not with the seed
of destruction hilt the hope of)
humanity. He is presented for
the doctorate of Laws.
Doctor of Science
his new regime. . later he added to' this the pr
HENRY CABOT TODGT., Jr..
; who traversed Harvard Col-
i lege cum laude in three years.
took part in dramatics, Con-
tributed to The Harvard Advo-
rag chewing and voluntary
barber shop harmony, spent
litix years in journalism as
Staff reporter and high-mile-
age correspondent, served four
years in the Massachusetts
State Legislature. was elected
to the United States Senate
at the age of 34 for the term
ending in 1943. v-vas re-elected
in 1942 but resigned for Army
service which carried him into
-combat duty across much of'
North Africa and. Eurcase and
from which he emerged with
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel
and a constellation of decora-
tions, was re-elected to the
Senate in 1946 for the term
ending in 1953, and has since
served as our chief delegate
to the United Nations and its
tection against prodigal was
,of mankind's basic patrimony.;
he is every inch a conservation-
ist?and these are a good many;
inches?and we gladly present,
him for the doctorate of Science.
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JOSEPH HENDERSHOT PARK,
born irt a New Jersey village,
where he is still a prophet not
Without honor as Well as. the
Methodist Church organist Of
fifty years' sitting 'on' ? obtain-
ing the doctOrate Of Philosophy
at Columbia joined the staff of
New York University as in-,
structor in history in 1915, and
advanced through all of the pro-
fessorial and administrative
ranks to the top of the depart-
ment, a performance which
begat involvement; in' the man-
agement of grktiu'ate work.
Since 1943 . he las ;served as
Dean of the Gradate School of
Arts and Science, and for the
past ten years as Chairman of
the Graduate' ComMission . as
well. Despite the posSessrve
strictures of executive 'duty he
has somehow managed what
few persons. In like circum-
stances have found 'possible,
namely, maintenance year in,
year out, of the role of class-.
room teacher. For four full
decades he has 'enlightened, ,
delighted, and inspired' goner-,
ations of students with ? his
skillful delineation of British
history and statesmanship of,
the past ?century: Proficient'
avoCationalist, he is one of the
world's leading authorities and
collectors in the realm of ce-
ramics and glassware' of eight-
eenth century England and
America. and also an amateur
horticulturist of 'rare profes-
sional :Skill. On the eve of his
'retirement as' Dean we would
express our gratitude for, hi,'
ubiquitousfriendshin and m
failing helpfulness with an ho
orary doctorate. ? ?
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WALTER BEDELL SMITH,
former Under Secretary ? and k
now Vice Chairman' of ? . the,,
Board of American Machine t
. and Foundry, Company, is pre-
sented for the degree Of Doctor'
of Laws. Indianapolis horn, and
still a Hoosier, in good stand-
,ing, he entered the Indiana t
"Guard as a .youth of sixteen,/
won an Army commission in
1917, fought with the Fourth
Division in France in 1918, tin-
derwent training in the Infan-
try School at Fort Benning, the'!
Command and General .Staff
School at' Leavenworth, and the
? Army War College in ?WaShilig-
ton, advanced through grades
?? from private to Lieutenant Gen-
- eral, became Secretary of the
,Anglo-Aineriban Chiefs of .Staff
? it bur entrance into World
War II, ? was appointed .Eisen-
hower's Chief of Staff in 1942.
later ,served as- Chief of Staff
of Allied Forces ,in' North Af-
rica and the Mediterranean
Theatre, and. finally as Chief
of Staff of Supreme Headquar-
ters of Allied Expeditionary
Forces hi the European Theatre
of Operations. Ambassador to
the Sbviet Union from 1946 to
' 1949, 'he thereafter commanded
th.o. First Army. at Governor's
ksland until 1950' served as
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rector of the Central
gen-s-pr-vrttrcy-from---1950-to
1953, and as Under Secretary of
State until his Withdrawal from
public office last fall. 'A mighty
.
smith was 'he in the, forging of
Allied victory; he has since
been equally implacable as a
j
sn
scourge of forces that 'tend to
?ullify the gains of that victory
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