Amherst College
Dag Hammarskjöld U.N. Secretary General LL.D.
Citation: "You are a mountain climber ... but the long, slow ascent from war-born confusion in which you have played so significant a role, has shown that man-made obstacles are far more challenging than those raised by nature . . ."
Bates College
John Phillips Marquand .... L.H.D. Sherman Adams, assistant to President
Eisenhower LL.D.
Millicent C. Mclntosh, president of
Barnard College L.H.D.
Brown University
Harold W. Dodds, president of Princeton University LL.D.
Nathan Pusey, president of Harvard University LL.D.
Citation: "Clear-sighted and luminous exponent of the liberal arts; strikingly modest but courageous administrator."
Cambridge University Ruth Draper, monologuist LL.D.
Citation: (translated from the Latin): "One man in his time plays many parts, but it is unusual to find someone who not only played her parts one after another, but several at once . . . Yet . . . has anyone . . . seen her in the character of academic woman? It is surely time that she added 'fabulae togatae' to her repertoire; so let us clothe her in our scarlet gown . . ."
Colby College
Andrew Wyeth, painter .... D.F.A. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover . . Sc.D.
Citation: "Deviser of the nuclear reactor that led to the first undersea vessel powered by nuclear energy, you have enabled men for the first time to go down into the sea in ships wholly independent of the atmosphere . . ."
Elwyn Brooks White L.H.D.
Citation: "Tolerant observer of human foibles, implacable foe of all forms of tyranny, lover of nature and friend of furred and feathered life, a modern Thoreau at home in both Brooklins . . ."
Colgate University
Robert Moses L.H.D.
Peter J. W. Debye, Nobel-Prizewinning
chemist L.H.D.
John Hay Whitney LL.D.
Dartmouth College
Roy E. Larsen, president of TIME Inc., and chairman of the National Citizens Commision for the Public Schools.................L.L.D. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (jointly) .........L.H.D.
Citation: "What the Lunts have joined together Dartmouth will not set asunder. thirty years ago ..........a new dimension was added to the theater of our time;.....You have paced each other with intelliogence, wit, integrity, hard work and unparalleled grace until it can be said of your performing art that words are never put to better use or needed less......
New York University Francis H. Taylor, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ....D.F.A.
Citation: "He brought to his present post not only a wealth of scholarship and experience, but the celestial vision and terrestrial sagacity that have lifted our foremost American treasure house of the art of the ages to unprecedented heights...
Occidental College Henry Robinson Luce, edito-in-chief of TIME, LIFE, and, FORTUNE...L.T.D.
Citation: "For your constructive leadership in effective journalism, for your extensive leadership in humane and educational benevolence, for your knowledge of the principles and laws by which only may democratic society be maintained in harmony and progress."