HONORARY DEGREES TO BE AWARDED THIS MORNING

MASTER OF ARTS

WALTER PRENTICE BOWERS: A physician devoted to his calling, for more than forty years a general practitioner in Worcester County, he has brought skill and wisdom to countless homes.

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Acclaimed by the world as a great revolutionist of theoretical physics, his bold speculations, now become basic doctrine, will be remembered when mankind's present troubles are long forgotten.

WALDEMAR LINDGREN: A geologist to whom all men turn for knowledge of the metallic secrets hidden in the rock.

ALBERT SAUVEUR: Long famous as a founder of the science of metallography, a Harvard professor of whose achievements we shall be forever proud.

CHARLES SCHUCHERT: Eminent paleontologist of Yale who has mapped the ancient seas and fathomed the geologic past.

DOCTOR OF LAWS

NORMAN H. DAVIS: Statesman and ambassador whose persistent skill gives us hope for peaceful understanding between distracted nations.

JOHN CAMPBELL MERRIAM: A distinguished scientist whose wise administration of the Carnegie Institution has advanced knowledge on many fronts.

WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON: Beloved teacher and learned scholar, a former member of our faculty, now a leader in a vital experiment in education--the training of the college woman of today.

GEORGE SARTON: Historian of science and of learning, a scholar whose relentless toil and inspired vision are creating a new academic discipline.

HENRY AGARD WALLACE: A public servant of deep faith and high integrity who finds courage to attempt an uncharted journey in our modern wilderness.

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE: A citizen of this republic who has devoted his life to democratic ideals and labored unceasingly for the public good.

DOCTOR OF LETTERS

THOMAS MANN: Novelist of rare distinotion an interpreter of life to many in the western world, one of the few contemporary guardians of the great tradition of German culture.