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A popular thing these days is the filling out of questionnaires. Harvard undergraduates gave their usual horse laugh recently when Princeton '37 came through with the customary poll for Most Handsome and Did Most for Princeton. Now, however the business strikes closer home. Harvard's Class of 1927 in its...
John R. Tunis does not often enjoy the experience of being either accurate or penetrating, but in an article on honorary degrees in the June issue in an article on honorary degrees in the June issue of "Harpers" he presents a case which should give thought to this university and...
Tunis lists as the chief requirements for honorary degrees under our system a fat pocket-book, a same of publicity value, an influential place in politics, or the position of college president. There are, to be sure, other avenues of entrance into the charmed circle, such as a career in...
An examination of the honorary degrees conferred by Harvard during the past five years proves that Tunis's frame fits out picture, with the possible exception that publicity value does not cut much ice at a university which makes news and does and need to court it.
Honorary degrees, carelessly awarded and worn by men of small abilities can do nothing but cheapen the university that gives them. While the tawdy publicity-hunting described by Tunis does not motivate Harvard, this university has had its part in the movement which has made of honorary degrees an insincere...