Who is likely to get an honorary degree? To cast some light on this vexing academic question Datus C. Smith Jr., able young editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, last week compiled for Forum & Century a list of U. S. kudos champions and a list of outstanding U. S. citizens as yet unhonored. Then he invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Champions were Nicholas Murray Butler (34), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27), the New York Times's speechmaker, John Huston Finley (27). Dorothy Dix is an honorary Doctor...
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