Education: Kudos, Jun. 9, 1952

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Boston University

David E. Lilienthal. . . .LL.D.

Citation: "Lawyer, scholar, statesman, former head of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, able administrator and pioneer in the gigantic task of releasing and using atomic energy, recipient of countless honors for service to the nation in behalf of freedom, religion, agriculture, and security, you have used your genius since your graduation from a Methodist college to advance the ideals, confirm the hopes and improve the lot of your fellow men . . ."

Brown University

Charles H. Malik, Lebanese Minister to the U.S LL.D.

Citation: "Citizen of a land known of old, newly reborn in our own day as a sovereign state, product of its schools and of the American University in Beirut . . . trained in mathematics, physics and philosophy, scholar and teacher, diplomat and international figure, the wide sweep of your learning, the scope of your perspective and the strategic location of your nation have given you remarkable opportunity for the sympathetic interpretation of the Near East to the West and of the U.S. to Western Asia . . ."

John J. Muccio, U.S. Ambassador to Korea LL.D.

Leonard Carmichael, retiring president of Tufts, secretary-elect of the Smithsonian Institution D.Sc.

Sevellon Brown, editor and publisher of the Providence Journal and Bulletin LL.D.

Mount Mary College (Milwaukee) Whittaker Chambers LL.D.

Citation: "Student at Columbia University, a senior editor of TIME, author of Witness, translator of Bambi and of several French and German books, who, after finding the error of his way, tries with some hesitation due to inner conflict, but with complete dedication of spirit and every resource of a brilliant mind, to arouse the American people, lulled to Circean inactivity, to the treasonable conspiracy against the country and the destruction of the Christian values implicit in our civilization and is met with public defamation, the eyebrow-raising of spiritual vagrants in and out of government, the supercilious superiority of guilt itself, and spiritual wickedness in high places; nevertheless, renouncing the things which men hold dear, wealth, position and prestige, and disregarding the statute of limitations in his own case, finally arouses the American people to their danger, and affirming anew against a background of indifference, lethargy and contempt the great truths of Christianity, is entitled, because of his white martyrdom of the spirit as a witness for God and country, to the degree of Doctor of Laws . . ."

Russell Sage College (Troy, N.Y.) Elizabeth Gray Vining, former tutor to the Crown Prince of Japan. . . L.H.D.

Citation: "Forces that bring about change in the world are not all of dramatic quality nor of hurricane strength. The power of gentle influences—of compassion, the ideal of universal brotherhood, and integrity—is great and enduring . . ."

University of Nebraska

Trygve Halvdan Lie LL.D.

Citation: "Experienced and able leader in the economic and political life of his native country, Norway. Courageous public servant during its time of travail. Now, as Secretary General of the United Nations Organization, a distinguished leader in the world's best hope for peace."

University of Notre Dame

Mortimer J. Adler, Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Chicago LL.D.