Kudos: KUDOS

Round 1

One clue to the values a university holds highest is the men it chooses to honor. At hundreds of commencements thus far this spring, doctorates have been bestowed upon a widely diverse collection of notable people. Among them :

UNIVERSITY OF AKRON

General Harold Keith Johnson, LL.D., U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In the councils of his country, his is the clear, steady voice of deep-rooted patriotism.

AQUINAS COLLEGE (Mich.)

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumous), D.LET.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Roy Wilkins, L.H.D., executive director of N.A.A.C.P.

CHATHAM COLLEGE

Martha Peterson, L.H.D., president of Barnard College. Out of Kansas she came, fresh as the morning dew, tall as...

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