Rockefeller Inst. Gives University Honorary Award

President Pusey accepted an honorary degree for Harvard University last week from the Rockefeller Institute. It was among the first eight citations bestowed by the Institute, which marked its debut as an academic insitution.

The degree cited Harvard as "both our oldest university and one of our most youthful, vigorous, imaginative, and in a word, one of our greatest universities." It was presented by Alfred E. Mirsky '22 for the Institute.

The first degree conferred went to the oldest University in the western world, the University of Bologna, founded in 1000. In the words of Dr. Rene J. Dubos, "The historical role of Bologna is not limited to having shaped our institutions of higher learning. This most ancient of all universities has also contributed richly and continuously to the history of thought and knowledge."

British Universities Cited

Other citations were given to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Accepted by Baron Edgar Douglas Adrian, master of Trinity College, the award to Cambridge declared, "During the last hundred years, Cambridge has veered toward science. Good fortune this for the harsh world of today."

Jose Leon Barandiaran, rector of the University of San Marcos, Lima, received a degree stating: "This, one of the new world's oldest universities, is great today not only because of its antiquity, but because of its distinguished record as a center of intellectual leadership down through the centuries since its beginning."