Truman Awaits

Will Harry Truman this year receive the honorary degree that he has been waiting 25 years to pick up? That is the very question that honorary degree trend watchers have been asking themselves all week, to no avail.

Reliable sources indicate, however, that this is the last chance for the former President who, after all, was in office when Secretary of State George C. Marshall dropped by Tercentenary Theatre and unobtrusively (though unexpectedly) announced the Marshall Plan at Harvard's 1947 Commencement.

We all know what happened to Marshall. He got an honorary in 1947, even before he announced his Plan. And this year, 25 years after Marshall's appearance at graduation, what more fitting moment than that appropriated to present President Truman with his honorary?

This correspondent will not receive a degree tomorrow, but perhaps the former President will, at last, find happiness on the steps of Memorial Church.