Adelphi College
Mark Van Doren . . L.H.D.
Citation: "We honor you today as one who explores the upper planes of man's mind, and yet who remains of the world and can communicate the beauty of life's gifts to those whom you touch."
Theodore Houser, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. LL.D.
William S. Paley, chairman of Columbia Broadcasting System LL.D.
Carlos P. Romulo LL.D.
Ogden Rogers Reid, president and editor of the N.Y. Herald Tribune. LL.D.
Citation: "You asserted that without a free press, there can be neither freedom nor free government. Further, that newspapers . . . must help make history and not just write it."
Carleton College
Marchette Chute, literary historian Litt.D.
Colgate University
William J.' Brennan Jr., associate justice of the Supreme Court D.C.L.
Harold W. Dodds, retiring president of Princeton University L.H.D.
Dartmouth College
Alfred Maximilian Gruenther.
LL.D.
Citation: "One of the minor mysteries of modern military history is how even West Point could keep a lieutenant named Maximilian teaching mathematics for eight years only to have him become the youngest four-star general ever."
Omer Carmichael, school superintendent of Louisville, Ky L.H.D.
Citation: "You and the Louisville community demonstrated to this nation and the watching world that both persuasion and compliance with law are essential to the human relations of a democracy."
Nelson Rockefeller LL.D.
Citation: "Because you bear a name behind whose renown many would doze, you have been privileged to personify the truth that whatever else comes readymade, there are nothing but selfmade men."
Alfred P. Sloan Jr LL.D.
Carlos Baker, critic Litt.D.
Douglas Horton, dean of the Harvard Divinity School D.D.
Homer A. Thompson, archaeologist who helped restore the Agora of Athens L.H.D.
Denison University
Albert C. Jacobs, president of Trinity College LL.D.
Fordham University
Clare Boothe Luce
.Litt.D.
Citation: "A quick and restless mind, a profound understanding of charity, a winning sense of humor and a radiance of manner—these attributes make her one of the outstanding women of our age."
Hamilton College
Herbert Brownell Jr LL.D.
James J. Rorimer, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art D.F.A.
Harvard University
Robert F. Goheen, incoming president of Princeton University LL.D.
Citation: "We salute the chosen one of a favorite sister."
Arthur L. Goodhart, U.S.-born professor of jurisprudence and master of University College, Oxford University LL.D.
Dag H.A.C. Hammarskjöld, U.N. Secretary-General LL.D.
Citation: "He works courageously to forge and use a practical tool for settling the problems of peoples and nations."
Christian A. Herter, Under Secretary of State LL.D.
Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Land camera and chairman of the Polaroid Corporation -. Sc.D.