Recipient of Honorary Degrees
1970
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Dwight W. Winkelman (Doctor of Business Administration)
Frank Peter Piskor (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Julian Bond (Doctor of Laws)
U. Thant (Doctor of Laws)
Milton Ridvas Konvitz (Doctor of Laws)
Alfred Buckley (Doctor of Laws)
Louis J. Lefkowitz (Doctor of Laws)
Howard T. Saperston (Doctor of Letters)
William Bennett Kouwenhoven (Doctor of Science)
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Doris Caesar (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Clark David Ahlberg (Doctor of Laws)
Earl William Brydges (Doctor of Laws)
Ralph Winfred Tyler (Doctor of Laws)
Richard Vernon Moore (Doctor of Laws)
William Frank Buckley Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
William Pearson Tolley (Doctor of Laws)
Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Doctor of Laws)
Anthony John Travia (Doctor of Laws)
Lee Alvin Du Bridge (Doctor of Science)
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Eric Henry Faigle (Doctor of Laws)
M. Eunice Hilton (Freeland Doctor of Laws)
Walter Cronkite (Doctor of Laws)
Leland Boyd Henry (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Donald Frederick Hornig (Doctor of Science)
George Wells Beadle (Doctor of Science)
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Arthur William Poister (Doctor of Humane Letters)
John McCallister Crawford Jr. (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Charles Casper Noble (Doctor of Laws)
Lyle Manly Spencer (Doctor of Laws)
Abe Fortas (Doctor of Laws)
Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson (Doctor of Laws)
Edward Joseph Mortola (Doctor of Laws)
Frank DelVecchio (Doctor of Laws)
Gordon Douglass Hoople (Doctor of Laws)
James Tobin (Doctor of Laws)
Orison Swett Marden (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Campbell Clark (Doctor of Laws)
William Willard Wirtz (Doctor of Laws)
Stanley Howells Fuld (Doctor of Laws)
Theodosius Dobzhansky (Doctor of Science)
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Seymour Horace Knox (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Robert E. Dineen (Doctor of Laws)
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Doctor of Laws)
Gustave Lehmann Levy (Doctor of Laws)
William Bynum (Doctor of Laws)
Jacob Koppel Javits (Doctor of Laws)
Halsey Stevens (Doctor of Letters)
Edwin Albert Link (Doctor of Science)
Hardy Lomax Shirley (Doctor of Science)
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Welthy Honsinger Fisher (Doctor of Humane Letters)
John T. Connor (Doctor of Laws)
Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Julius Speer (Doctor of Laws)
Arthur Joseph Goldberg (Doctor of Laws)
Rosemary Park (Doctor of Letters)
Ralph Thomas Walker (Doctor of Letters)
Harold Lawton Hutton (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
John Willard Milnor (Doctor of Science)
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Aaron Copland (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Dr. Terence Edward Cawthorne (Doctor of Laws)
Marvin Rood Dye (Doctor of Laws)
George Henry Lesch (Doctor of Laws)
Earle John Machold (Doctor of Laws)
James Alfred Perkins (Doctor of Laws)
John Owen Gross (Doctor of Laws)
President Lyndon Baines Johnson (Doctor of Laws)
Camilo J. Cela (Doctor of Letters)
Walter Maydole Higley (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
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Rosemond Tuve (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (Doctor of Laws)
Vincent M. Barnett Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
H. Hiram Weisberg (Doctor of Laws)
Frederic Nathaniel Schwartz (Doctor of Laws)
Drew Middleton (Doctor of Letters)
Sir Charles Percy Snow (Doctor of Letters)
James Franklin Hyde (Doctor of Science)
Reginald Dickinson Manwell (Doctor of Science)
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Sir Edouard Morot (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Erwin Panofsky (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Lou Russell Maxon (Doctor of Laws)
John Aloysius Coleman (Doctor of Laws)
Henry Jacob Friendly (Doctor of Laws)
George Louis Haller (Doctor of Laws)
Douglas Gilbert Haring (Doctor of Laws)
Jenah Shah Saleh (Doctor of Laws)
Herbert Emmerich (Doctor of Laws)
Don K. Price Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Clarence Eugene Ridley (Doctor of Laws)
Ralph Washington Sockman (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
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Howard C. Hirsch (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Henry Carroll II (Doctor of Laws)
Richard Edwin McArdle (Doctor of Laws)
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Doctor of Laws)
Moses Gilbert Hubbard (Doctor of Laws)
Stewart Lee Udall (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas John Watson Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Gordon Norton Ray (Doctor of Letters)
William Ralph Ward Jr. (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Irving Widmer Baily (Doctor of Science)
Ellwood Scott Harrar (Doctor of Science)
Howard Waldron Morgan (Doctor of Science)
Eino Armas Saari (Doctor of Science)
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Marian Anderson (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Gaston Berger (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Henry C. Alexander (Doctor of Laws)
Cyril Orvin Houle (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Baumle Meyner (Doctor of Laws)
Earl Warren (Doctor of Laws)
Gilbert Highet (Doctor of Letters)
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David Barnard Steinman (Doctor of Engineering)
Roger M. Blough (Doctor of Laws)
Finla Goff Crawford (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Lee Frost (Doctor of Letters)
Frederic Gershom Melcher (Doctor of Letters)
Rudolf K. Bultmann (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Philip Wilburn Souder (Doctor of Science)
Frank M. Strong (Doctor of Science)
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J.W. Hughes (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Josephine Holt Perfect Bay (Doctor of Laws)
Carl Ortwin Sauer (Doctor of Laws)
Milton Stover Eisenhower (Doctor of Laws)
Commander Sir Robert Gillman Allen Jackson (Doctor of Laws)
Sir Leslie Munro (Doctor of Laws)
William Bayard Heroy (Doctor of Science)
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Perry Miller (Doctor of Humane Letters)
John F. Kennedy (Doctor of Laws)
Paul Henson Appleby (Doctor of Laws)
Eugene Robert Black (Doctor of Laws)
Louis Brownlow (Doctor of Laws)
William Chapman Foster (Doctor of Laws)
Alfred Maximilian Gruenther (Doctor of Laws)
Henry Merritt Wriston (Doctor of Laws)
Henry Crown (Doctor of Laws)
Frederick Karl Kilian (Doctor of Laws)
Frederick Buckley Newell (Doctor of Laws)
Bruce Catton (Doctor of Letters)
Willard Frank Libby (Doctor of Science)
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John Theobald (Doctor of Laws)
Samuel T. Rayburn (Doctor of Laws)
Carl L. Bausch (Doctor of Laws)
Hamilton H. Kellogg (Doctor of Laws)
Frederick Hipp (Doctor of Laws)
George Angell (Doctor of Laws)
Helen P. Maney (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph William Martin Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
F. Gordon Smith (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Vernor Smith (Doctor of Laws)
Thurgood Marshall (Doctor of Laws)
Norman Cousins (Doctor of Letters)
Walter Dewey Cocking (Doctor of Letters)
Frances Abrahamson Singer (Doctor of Letters)
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Pierre Donzelot (Doctor of Laws)
Asa Smith Bushnell (Doctor of Laws)
Edward John Noble (Doctor of Laws)
Keith Stratton McHugh (Doctor of Laws)
Samuel I. Newhouse (Doctor of Laws)
James E. Allen Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Roscoe Drummond (Doctor of Laws)
William Averell Harriman (Doctor of Laws)
Willis Holyoake Booth (Doctor of Laws)
Marion Bayard Folsom (Doctor of Laws)
Albert Bacon Merrill (Doctor of Laws)
Irving S. Olds (Doctor of Laws)
Alfred Pritchard Sloan (Doctor of Laws)
Malcolm Philip Ferguson (Doctor of Science)
Frederick Emmons Terman (Doctor of Science)
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Charles Edward Clark (Doctor of Laws)
Charles S. Desmond (Doctor of Laws)
Adm. Hyman George Rickover (Doctor of Laws)
Agnes Ernst Meyer (Mrs. Eugene Meyer) (Doctor of Laws)
Arthur T. Vanderbilt (Doctor of Laws)
Ernest I. White (Doctor of Laws)
H. Douglass Van Dusen (Doctor of Laws)
Harold Edward Stassen (Doctor of Laws)
Harrison Tweed (Doctor of Laws)
R. Foster Piper (Doctor of Laws)
Grayson Louis Kirk (Doctor of Laws)
Stewart Freeman Hancock (Doctor of Laws)
David Dallas Jones (Doctor of Laws)
Mary Pillsbury Lord (Doctor of Laws)
H. Lee White (Doctor of Laws)
Philip Sidney Bernstein (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
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Robert Livingston Johnson (Doctor of Laws)
Paul Shipman Andrews (Doctor of Laws)
Caroline Werner Gannett (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (Doctor of Laws)
Ruth Stafford Peale (Doctor of Laws)
William White (Doctor of Laws)
Frank Ernest Gannett (Doctor of Laws)
Frank C. Laubach (Doctor of Letters)
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Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Doctor of Engineering)
Joseph S. Illick (Doctor of Laws)
Lee E. Emerson (Doctor of Laws)
Charles Henry Tuttle (Doctor of Laws)
Harold R. Medina (Doctor of Laws)
John T. McGovern (Doctor of Laws)
Harry T. Levin (Doctor of Letters)
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Dimitri Mitropoulos (Doctor of Fine Arts)
A. Blair Knapp (Doctor of Laws)
Warren Robinson Austin (Doctor of Laws)
Frank Pace Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Trygve Halvdan Lie (Doctor of Laws)
M. Lyle Spencer (Doctor of Letters)
Herman G. Weiskotten (Doctor of Science)
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Katharine Sibley (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Albert C. Jacobs (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Knight Finletter (Doctor of Laws)
Frank Bryant (Doctor of Laws)
James E. Webb (Doctor of Laws)
Sydney F. Foster (Doctor of Laws)
Paul G. Hoffman (Doctor of Laws)
Benjamin Friedman (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
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Virgil Thompson (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Ralph Johnson Bunche (Doctor of Laws)
Albert Conway (Doctor of Laws)
Lester Bowles Pearson (Doctor of Laws)
Mark Arthur May (Doctor of Laws)
Nathaniel Lawrence Goldstein (Doctor of Laws)
Livingston W. Houston (Doctor of Laws)
Elizabeth Nightingale Graham Arden (Doctor of Laws)
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Adrian Van Sinderen (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Paul Hoy Helms (Doctor of Laws)
Frank Charles Moore (Doctor of Laws)
Lewis Ketchum Sillcox (Doctor of Laws)
Alexander II. Cowie (Doctor of Laws)
James William Fulbright (Doctor of Laws)
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Wells Ira Bennett (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Dorothy Shaver (Doctor of Laws)
John Jay McCloy (Doctor of Laws)
Norman J.O. Makin (Doctor of Laws)
Frank D. Fackenthal (Doctor of Laws)
Howard S. Cullman (Doctor of Laws)
Ruth A. Haas (Doctor of Laws)
Harry A. Winne (Doctor of Science)
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Harold L. Butler (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Mary E. Jenkins (Doctor of Humane Letters)
M. Lesley West (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Charles Albert Kirk (Doctor of Laws)
Charles Edward Wilson (Doctor of Laws)
Alex H. Cowie (Doctor of Laws)
Frank W. Abrams (Doctor of Laws)
John T. Loughran (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph Hurst Ball (Doctor of Laws)
Sarah Blanding (Doctor of Laws)
F. Cyril James (Doctor of Laws)
Lucile Petry (Doctor of Laws)
James Phinney Baxter (Doctor of Letters)
Jacob Cloyd Tressler (Doctor of Pedagogy)
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Wayman Adams (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Perley O. Place (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Francis McCurn (Doctor of Laws)
Howard J. White (Doctor of Laws)
William B. Hodge (Doctor of Laws)
Henry R. Luce (Doctor of Letters)
Horace A. Eaton (Doctor of Letters)
Charles F. Kettering (Doctor of Science)
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Charles Lee Raper (Doctor of Laws)
Samuel Newton Spring (Doctor of Laws)
Harley N. Crosby (Doctor of Laws)
Chen Wen-yuan (Doctor of Laws)
Samuel P. Capen (Doctor of Laws)
Deems Taylor (Doctor of Music)
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Guy W. Cox (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Justice Robert H. Jackson (Doctor of Laws)
Kathryn H. Starbuck (Doctor of Laws)
Judge Irving Lehman (Doctor of Laws)
Helen Hayes (Mrs. Charles MacArthur) (Doctor of Letters)
Bishop Malcolm E. Peabody (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Dr. Charles Hurd (Doctor of Science)
Admiral Ross T. McIntire (Doctor of Science)
Dr. William M. Smallwood (Doctor of Science)
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Alfred Noyes (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Carlos Martino Pereirae Sousa (Doctor of Laws)
Elbert Henry Gary (Doctor of Laws)
Jacob Robert Rubin (Doctor of Laws)
Lewis A. Wilson (Doctor of Laws)
Myron E. Adams (Doctor of Laws)
Philip Walburn Souder (Doctor of Laws)
Carl Sandburg (Doctor of Literature)
Winifred J. Hughes (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Wilbur Branbley Rayton (Doctor of Science)
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Norman Bel Geddes (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Helen Rogers Reid (Mrs. Ogden) (Doctor of Humane Letters)
John Stewart Bryan (Doctor of Laws)
Howard Edward Babcock (Doctor of Laws)
Leonard Walter Brockington (Doctor of Laws)
Alfred Dexter Simpson (Doctor of Pedagogy)
Samuel Geiss Trexler (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Elmer Grimshaw Butler (Doctor of Science)
Algre Luman Ward (Doctor of Science)
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Samuel Burman Long (Doctor of Divinity)
George Young Benton (Doctor of Divinity)
Lorimer Wilson Rich (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Wilbur Henry Fleck (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Charles Brown Sears (Doctor of Laws)
Owen D. Young (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas John Watson (Doctor of Laws)
Carl Alfred Kallgren (Doctor of Pedagogy)
Jason John Nassau (Doctor of Science)
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Christopher J. McCombe (Doctor of Divinity)
Ellsworth Charles Reamon (Doctor of Divinity)
Jonas Lie (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Frederic William Gouldy (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Sen. Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (Doctor of Laws)
Frank Lee Benns (Doctor of Letters)
Burton P. Fowler (Doctor of Pedagogy)
George Thomas Hargitt (Doctor of Science)
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James William Wilson (Doctor of Divinity)
Luther Wesley Smith (Doctor of Divinity)
Louis John Gill (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Harry James Carman (Doctor of Humane Letters)
John Lord O'Brian (Doctor of Laws)
Herbert Henry Lehman (Doctor of Laws)
Frank Allen Patterson (Doctor of Letters)
Charles Packard (Doctor of Science)
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Lynn J.D. Radcliffe (Doctor of Divinity)
Alfred P. Coman (Doctor of Divinity)
(Arthur) Fremont Rider (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Dorothy Thompson (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Ezra Edmund Day (Doctor of Laws)
Judge Edmund H. Lewis (Doctor of Laws)
Richard Bonelli (Doctor of Music)
Eugene R. Smith (Doctor of Pedagogy)
George A. Wilson (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
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Rev. Norman Weaver Clemens (Doctor of Divinity)
Rev. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee (Doctor of Divinity)
Dr. Merritte Weber Ireland (Doctor of Laws)
Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton (Doctor of Laws)
Commissioner Lithgow Osborne (Doctor of Laws)
Hon. Frederick Howard Bryant (Doctor of Laws)
Gen. John J. Pershing (Doctor of Laws)
Dr. Albert S. Hurst (Doctor of Pedagogy)
Harry Lathrop Reed (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Dr. William L. Bray (Doctor of Science)
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Albert G. Judd (Doctor of Divinity)
William H. Alderson (Doctor of Divinity)
Alexander Clarence Flick (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Alan Chester Valentine (Doctor of Laws)
Dave Hennen Morris (Doctor of Laws)
Henry Morganthau Sr. (Doctor of Laws)
Sir Josiah Stamp (Doctor of Laws)
Irving G. Hubbs (Doctor of Laws)
Walter Albert Patrick (Doctor of Science)
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George F. Johnson (Doctor of Business Administration)
Rev. Raymond Howard Huse (Doctor of Divinity)
Rev. Robert Park (Doctor of Divinity)
Dwight James Baum (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Dean Edward Henry Kraus (Doctor of Laws)
Dr. Harvey Cushing (Doctor of Laws)
Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Hon. Cameron Morrison (Doctor of Laws)
Hon. Eugene Meyer (Doctor of Laws)
Hon. Joseph Bartlett Eastman (Doctor of Laws)
Hon. Robert Woods Bliss (Doctor of Laws)
Hon.Eugene Meyeer (Doctor of Laws)
Dr. Florence Rena Sabin (Doctor of Science)
Dr. Ludwig Kast (Doctor of Science)
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Rev. Fred Pierce Corson (Doctor of Divinity)
Ernest I. Barott (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Frederick Trubee Davison (Doctor of Laws)
Mark Graves (Doctor of Laws)
David Moore Robinson (Doctor of Letters)
Walter Dougherty Hampden (Doctor of Letters)
Charles S. Skilton (Doctor of Music)
William Hartman Woodin (Doctor of Music)
Bishop Francis J. McConnell (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Dr. Ismar John Peritz (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Rev. Walter Russell Bowie (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
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Richard Bedford Bennett (Doctor of Civil Laws)
Allan Knight Chalmers (Doctor of Divinity)
Cassius Miller (Doctor of Divinity)
James Harrison Olmstead (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert Steward Spencer (Doctor of Divinity)
John Russell Pope (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Maj. General Hanford MacNider (Doctor of Laws)
William D. Herridge (Doctor of Laws)
Frederick William Schlieder (Doctor of Music)
Chih Ping Wang (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
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George W. Wickersham (Doctor of Civil Laws)
Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (Doctor of Civil Laws)
Rev. Fred Eli Lott (Doctor of Divinity)
Rev. George Jeremiah Becker (Doctor of Divinity)
Rev. Lloyd Ellis Foster (Doctor of Divinity)
Rev. Norman Vincent Peale (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Dana Gibson (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Dr. William James Durant (Doctor of Humane Letters)
John Adams Kingsbury (Doctor of Laws)
Judge Leonard Callender Crouch (Doctor of Laws)
Alice Vanderbilt S. Morris (Doctor of Letters)
Anne Virena Rice (Doctor of Sacred Theology)
Dean William Henry Metzler (Doctor of Science)