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Wilder Graves Penfield, founder and director of the Montreal Neurological Institute . . . Sc.D.
Lowell Jacob Reed, president of Johns Hopkins University . . . Sc.D.
Howard Canning Taylor Jr., gynecologist . . . Sc.D.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, First Baron Adrian of Cambridge . . . Sc.D.
Citation: "Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine . . . interpreter of the brain waves of man . . . Since 1951 Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and raised to the peerage by his Queen in the last New Year's honors list, so that we can now truthfully address him as My Lord Master."
Bernardo Alberto Houssay, director, Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine, Buenos Aires . . . Sc.D.
Citation: "Nobel Prize winner of 1947, whose leadership in the study of the biological functions of the hormones has led the fraternity of medicine to new concepts in the disease of diabetes."
Jonas Edward Salk . . . Sc.D.
Citation: "Discoverer of the vaccine for the prevention of poliomyelitis, that scourge which has caused dread in the hearts of every family, not only in America, but throughout the world; his is a name that will go down in history and will be spoken amongst men in words of wonder and gratitude."
Adlai E. Stevenson . . . LL.D.
Citation: "Physician extraordinary to the body politic, skilled in diagnosis, bold in prognosis, forthright in prescription, buoyant of bedside manner and articulate in professional discourse; a scholarly statesman who, like Demosthenes of old in an age not dissimilar to our own, speaks eloquently of the noble purposes of democracy and the urgency of unity in the great cause of peace."
Ohio Wesleyan University
Charles Malik, Ambassador from Lebanon . . . LL.D.
St. Lawrence University
Maurice Thompson Moore, chairman of TIME Inc. . . . LL.D.
Robert Lawson Shaw, choral conductor . . . D.F.A.
Smith College
Irita Van Doren, literary editor of the N. Y. Herald Tribune Book Review . . . Litt.D.
Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, mayor of Ottawa . . . LL.D.
Marianne Craig Moore, poet . . . L.H.D.
Citation: "A brilliant essayist, an architect of speech and structure, she has given form and feeling to a passion for precision."