PRESIDENT CONANT GIVEN COLUMBIA DEGREE OF D.Sc.

President Conant was among nine men who were yesterday awarded honorary degrees by Columbia University at its 180th annual Commencement Exercises. He was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, together with Ernest William Brown, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale.

Others who received honorary degrees were Harold Willis Dodds, new president of Princeton, Surrogate James A. Foley, Harry W. Chase, Chancellor of New York University, John M. Keynes, economist, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Calvin B. Hoover, Professor of Economics at Duke University, and Russell H. Stafford, pastor of the Old South Church.