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Recipients of Honorary Degrees

Harvard conferred the following ten honorary degrees at commencement:

Honorary Master of Arts -- Hazard Stevens '64 of Boston; Hugh Henry Dana of Indianapolis.

Doctor of Divinity -- Gyorgy Boros, Dean of the Theological College at Kolozsvar, Hungary; Leighton Parks, Rector of Emmanuel Church, Boston; Hollis Burke Frissell, Principal of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.

Doctor of Laws -- Le Baron Russell Briggs '75, Dean of Harvard College; Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California; Marcus Perrin Knowlton, Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; William Henry Welch Professor of Pathology in Johns Hopkins University; Sir Julian Pauncefote, English Ambassador to the United States.

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