Education: More Kudos

Continuing their Commencements last week, U. S. colleges awarded honorary degrees to, among many others, these: Beloit College (Wis.)

Author Hamlin Garland (Main Traveled Roads, A Son of the Middle Border) Litt.D.

Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, chief of division for Far Eastern Affairs, U. S. State Department LL.D.

Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd... .Sc.D. President Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors Research Corp..Sc.D. President Karl Taylor Compton of

M. I. T Engr.D.

Brown

Frank Billings Kellogg LL.D.

Bliss Perry, retired Harvard English

Professor Litt.D.

Rev. Williams James Batt, oldest living Brown graduate...

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