Education: Kudos Jun. 11, 1934

When Commencement season arrived last year university trustees with honorary degrees to pass around turned instinctively to the new President's Cabinet. They were stopped at the top because Secretary of State Hull was away at the London Economic Conference and universities rarely bestow their kudos in absentia. So Syracuse led off by making Secretary of the Treasury Woodin a Doctor of Music. Secretary of War Dern got an LL. D. from Pennsylvania Military College. Postmaster General Farley became, by grace of the University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington...

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