Education: Kudos: Jul. 4, 1927

Another week of commencements—frolicking reunions, young people putting diplomas into trunks or tin tubes with varying reverence, older people wondering whether to put honorary degrees into picture frames.

Among the honorary degrees (kudos) awarded last week were:

Harvard University

Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, LL. D.

General Tasker Howard Bliss, U. S. Army (retired), LL. D.

Sir Josiah C. Stamp, British industrialist, statistician, LL. D.

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Chief Justice, New York Court of Appeals, LL. D.

University of Michigan

Nicholas Longworth, Speaker, House of Representatives, LL. D.

Frank William Taussig, economist, LL. D....

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