Education: Kudos: Round 4

Bates College John McPhee, Litt.D.. writer. It would strain logic to call you homonymous—though you are certainly terricolous.

Baylor College of Medicine Roger Guillemin, Litt.D., Nobel laureate in medicine.

Bowling Green State University Erma Bombeck, L.H.D., columnist. For reminding us that there is agony in adolescence and peril in parenthood, and that heroism is required to survive each.

Carleton College Muriel Humphrey, LL.D., U.S. Senator.

Harvard University John Cheever, Litt.D., writer. He perceives in the American suburb a microcosm of the divisions, tensions and incongruous ecstasies of 20th century life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Litt.D., writer. A courageous exponent of the unfettered human spirit.

Ephraim Katzir, Sc.D., biochemist,...

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