Education: Kudos, Jul. 1, 1957

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Bard College Chester Bowles, former Ambassador to India LL.D.

Citation: "Today we esteem you most for a quality that, if it partially explains your successes, dwarfs them all: your profound understanding of people."

Henri Peyre, Sterling professor of French at Yale University. Litt.D.

Citation: "You wield an angelic pen dipped in impish ink. A serious literary critic, you have delighted your readers and doubtless yourself by revealing the many and curious kinds of astigmatism that have beset generations of critics."

Brooklyn Law School Robert Wagner, mayor of New York City LL.D.

University of Minnesota

Walter H. Brattain, 1956 Nobel physicist who was one of the inventors of the transistor Sc.D.

Northeastern University

John L. Burns, president of Radio Corp. of America D.B.A.

Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prizewinning Civil War historian Litt.D.

Asa S. Knowles, president of the University of Toledo LL.D.

Julius Adams Stratton, chancellor of M.I.T LL.D.

Carl R. Woodward, president of the University of Rhode Island. LL.D.

Northwestern University

Christian A. Herter, Under Secretary of State LL.D.

George F. Kennan, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian, onetime Ambassador to the Soviet Union LL.D.

Citation: "As practitioner, historian, and theorist in the field of international relations, he has devoted himself to the strengthening of our international position through the exercise of informed and enlightened statesmanship."

Joseph Wood Krutch, critic. L.H.D.

Citation: "As philosopher—in 1929 in The Modern Temper—he brilliantly analyzed the condition of man in the modern world. Now in the 1950s, by the grace of his intellectual power, imagination and humanity, he has used it to the benefit of the whole world."

Leonard Bernstein, composer, conductor, pianist D.F.A.

Citation: "He has achieved the rare distinction of great popular success in the service of the highest ideals of his art."

Occidental College

U. Alexis Johnson, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia LL.D.

Princeton University

Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society and conservationist Sc.D.

Citation: "The country's flora and fauna ought now to award him a scroll inscribed with the fitting title, Curator Naturae. Failing that contingency, the Princeton species of Homo sapiens takes pleasure today in bestowing upon him [an] honorary degree."

Oswald Veblen, professor emeritus of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study Sc.D.

Citation: "If there is no royal road to geometry, there are highways to be built through its complex domains, and Veblen helped to build them."

Paul Joseph Sachs, professor emeritus of fine arts at Harvard University and expert on drawings Litt.D.

Thomas Marc Parrott, professor emeritus of English at Princeton. Litt.D.

Citation: "One who could never say with Shakespeare's Duke of Kent, 'I am too old to learn,' he is still alertly learning at the age of 90. For 70 of these 90 years, he has been 'a scholar and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading.' "