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11/10/1958
- Honorary Degrees
by John Hanessian, Jr.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS JH Scott Polar Research Institute 4onorary Degrees Cambridge England November alter S Rogers Institute Current Uorld Affairs Avenue York York Dear dogers As stood quietly dripning Yard Senate House watthing medieval procession multi splendor midst Middle Ages Directly frOnt stood venerable Gonville Caius College which founded parish priest Edmund Gonville years Behind Kings College right Great St Church The procession headed Chancellor Cambridge Univ ersity Lord Tedder He followed University Marshal Her Royal Highness Princess argaret about given honorary degree LL D special convocation Senate House Making balance scarlet black procession Vice Chancellor Lord Adrian assembled Proctors Stew Colleges Doctors Divinity Law Medicine Science Letters Music remaining members Council Senate We chosen watch orocession Yard I could obtain color photographs The crowd Yard sparse being limited members University their guests They lined walks which procession moved great dignity Out Yard great throngs townspeople undergraduates cheer Princess She indeed beautiful woman walked along regal grace In presenting Princess degree Orator Once enough daughter beautiful satis habebatur regis filia pulchra versaretur continuing tribute accomplishments singer accompaniment dulces docta modos cuius digiti loquuntur The actual presentation brief formal University Congregations conducted Latin prose especially written honor Earlier June Cambridge conferred honorarY degrees eight distinguished representatives sciences public service included recipients degree LL D Dean Acheson cited being orime mover principle lease during crisis World War II further described bearing perhaps heaviest burden imposed single during tenure Secretary State Dag Hammarskjold received degree Dr Sydney Chapman President international Special Committee IGY given Sc D Who asked Orator presenting degree heard Geophysical Year Oxford gives Honorary Degrees Cambridge Although would indicate extreme selectivity raises standing Cambridge Honorary Doctorate local writer states indeed mistaken opinion Not award torates exceedingly rigid allecating It appears claims every which universities offer orously weighed against other sternest taken could unfairly favored Names considered Honorary Degrees Cambridge mitted Vice Chancellor actual University middle Michaelmas Term beginning October These examined University Council private Public cussion members Council others would considered lobbying secrecy always shrouded procedures Annual awards given June although Oxford flexible enough award almost procedure which makes advantage visit Of distinguished foreigner award degree instead forcing inconvenient Although important matter concern other university Honorary Degrees considered significant means which Members University collect ively recognize distinction outside walls However criticism often Cambridge foreign artists rarely given degree since Reasons advanced world should recognised Some opposed interpreters being honored partly grounds already awards applause publicity Others apprehensive those regard charlatans second fashionable artists would honored would rather Was given Others argue there erally accepted standard exists scholorship against which measure Bolder suggest names those declining degrees published Oxford spring Picasso refused It Picasso accepted Oxford degree would accept Harvard prospect similar ceremonies stretchi future daunting Yours sincerely Eeceived New York November John Hanessian Jr