Postmaster General James Aloysius ("Jim") Farley accepted an honorary D.C.L. degree last week from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. "It's my first degree," cried he. "It was a beautiful ceremony." Then "General'' Farley, a Roman Catholic, flew back to Washington without hearing how he had almost failed to get his D.C.L. The trustees of famed, conservative Protestant Episcopal Sewanee had met in special session, with Episcopal Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor presiding. For every honorary degree unanimous consent was necessary. When ballots on "General" Farley's name were scrutinized, one looked like a squiggly, illegible "No." It was certainly not a "Yes." Then up spoke Trustee Arthur Crownover, according to campus gossip, to point out that the by-laws said an illegible ballot must be thrown out. "Then throw it out." said Bishop Gailor.
Kudos of the week:
Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.) Engineer Lewis Warrington Chubb. Director of Westinshouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.'s research laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sc. D
Vice President Charles Arthur Brooks of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. . .D.B.A.
Methodist Bishop Adna Wright Leonard. LL.D. Honorary President Ezra Squier Tipple of Drew University. . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D.
Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) President Frank Lusk Babbott Jr. of Long Island College of Medicine. . . . LL.D.
Budget Director Lewis Williams Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, widow of Dwight Whitney Morrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D. Harvard Professor Arthur Stanley Pease, retired president of Amherst . .LL.D. Amherst Trustee Frank Waterman Stearns, friend of the late Calvin Coolidge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D.
Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, Ohio) Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.
Blackburn University (Carlinville, Ill.) Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood. . . . . . .Sc.D.
Brown University (Providence, R. I.) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Franklin Winslow Johnson of Colby College (Waterville, Me.). . . LL.D. Harold Higgins Swift, Chicago packer. LL.D. Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Actress Eva Le Gallienne . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Charles Albert Selden, London correspondent of the New York Times . . . . . M.A. Colby College (Waterville, Me.) Bainbridge Colby. Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D.
Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.) George Leslie Harrison, Governor of New York's Federal Reserve Bank (in absentia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Edgar Nelson Rhodes, Canada's Finance Minister (in absentia). . . . . . LL.D. Vice President Herbert Abram Baker of American Can Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. George Parmly Day, Yale University treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Robert Devore Leigh of Bennington College (Vt.) . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D.