Education: Kudos, Jun. 20, 1960

U.S. colleges continued to honor a variety of professions and accomplishments. Among the recipients of honorary degrees last week:

American University

Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

LL.D.

Boston University

Marian Anderson, Negro concert and opera singer, onetime U.S. delegate to the United Nations

Mus.D.

Carl Mydans, LIFE Magazine photographer

HH.D.

Brown University

Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

LL.D.

Colby College

Norman Dello Joio, song and opera composer

Mus.D.

Georgetown University

John L. Lewis, president, United Mine Workers of America

L.H.D.

Goucher College

Margaret Mead, anthropologist, sociologist

LL.D.

Citation: "If college students know more than they used to about the methods and findings of anthropology, Margaret Mead is largely responsible for this fact."

Marianne Moore, poet

Litt.D.

Michigan State University

Harry S....

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