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...picked one up in 1946; and John Kennedy '40 stopped by ten years later, when he was still junior Senator from Massachusetts. All of these doctors, it will be noticed, were given degrees before they assumed the office of the Presidency--the same holds true for George Washington LL.D. (hon.) 1776, John Adams 1755, LL.D. (hon.) 1781, and Thomas Jefferson LL.D. (hon.) 1787--and no doubt the Corporation had second thoughts later on. But there are precedents: Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant and Col. Theodore Roosevelt '80 were all honored after they had attained what used...
...special L.H.D. (hon.) will be awarded to Louis Frederick Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry and Father of Napalm. Fieser's citation, engraved in burning letters, will read: "You have brought new light to darkest jungles...
...College Library; Governor John A. Volpe; Msgr. Francis J. Lally, editor of the Pilot, organ of the archdiocese; Jacques Barzun; Gov. Elliot Richardson '41; and the CRIMSON's long shot, Dr. Roy Orval Greep, Dean of the School of Dental Medicine. Dean Greep will receive a D.D.S. (hon...
...shepherded a group of trapped Vietnamese soldiers back to Route 19 at night with his landing lights guiding them along a path between intense Viet Cong fire 100 ft. on either side. Last week he was in the air for the better part of five days. North of Quin-hon he flushed a battalion-sized Viet Cong contingent and called in the Skyraiders. The result: about 50 dead Communists. McAllister has had some other interesting experiences. "Have you ever seen a tree walking?" he asks. "Well, I sure as hell did. There it was, walking down a hill...
...library. The William Scott Ferguson Prize of books goes to the writer of the outstanding History essay written in sophomore tutorial. The Dante prize gives $100 to a graduate student writing on the life or work of Dante. But the rewards of practical labor are meager. The now-defunct Hon. Robert Treat Paine Prize rewarded the best original investigation plus "practical conclusions" of some form of charity work. However, an essay on "The Special Phase of the Labor Question" could be substituted for first-hand investigation. The radicalism of E. M. Forster's reformers was soothed by John Ruskin...