Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will be one of 48 scholars and statesmen to be awarded honorary degrees at Columbia University's third and final Bicentennial Convocation, October 31.

MacLeish, who will also take part in a symposium on the previous day, will receive a Doctor of Letters award, Richard Powell, Columbia law professor administering the Bicentennial program, announced yesterday.

Also to be honored are four Eastern college presidents: John Sloan Dickey, Dartmouth; Charles W. Cole, Amherst; Victor L. Butterfield, Wesleyan; and James Phinney Baxter, Williams.

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MacLeish is the second University figure to be honored by Columbia. President Pusey received an honorary doctorate at the second convocation.

Among those scheduled to receive Doctor of Laws degrees at the final public ceremonies of the Bicentennial are Adlai E. Stevenson, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor.

MacLeish, who is also serving as acting Eliot House master, has won a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and has received 12 previous honoraries, including awards from Harvard and Yale.