Education: Kudos Jun. 8, 1936

As U. S. colleges spread themselves this year to salute with honorary degrees the wise, the rich and the merely acquiescent, the nation's oldest and most famed university last week plumped squarely for the wise. To Cambridge, Mass, for the culmination- of its 300th anniversary celebration in September, Harvard invited 66 top-flight pundits, so carefully hand-picked by President James Bryant Conant and his faculty that they furnished an international Who's Who of scholarship.

Chemist-President Conant, crack researcher in chlorophyll (the green coloring matter of plants), graciously invited his outstanding rival, Chemist Dr. Hans...

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