The University Marshal's office held its annual dinner to honor the candidates for honorary degrees in Annenberg Hall last night.

Every year, the President of Harvard confers these degrees, which will be announced today, on luminaries ranging from famous artists and cartoonists to economists.

Receiving honorary degrees in this morning's ceremony are: Kenneth J. Arrow, Bernard Bailyn, Herbert Block, Louise Bourgeois, Andrew F. Brimmer, David R. Cox, Alan Greenspan, Julia Kristeva and Mario Vargas Llosa.

This year's candidates feasted on prosciutto di parma with fresh figs, asparagus and loin of veal with morilles while the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum performed.

Kenneth J. Arrow

Arrow, a professor of economics at Stanford University, shared the Nobel Prize for economics in 1972.

He is most famous for his Ph.D. dissertation in which he proves the "Impossibility Theorem," and he is among the first economists to note the existence of the learning curve.

A graduate of the City College of New York, Arrow has also authored numerous books including The Economic Implications of Learning By Doing. He will receive a Doctorate of Laws.

Bernard Bailyn

Bailyn has taught at Harvard since 1949 and isthe Adams University Professor and Phillipsprofessor of early American history, emeritus. Heis best known for his original research on thesocial history of colonial America.

A graduate of Williams College, Bailyn alsoserved as the director of the Charles WarrenCenter for Studies in American History.

Bailyn, who has won both the Pulitzer andBancroft Prizes for his work, was also named the1998 Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowmentof the Humanities, the nation's highest honor forscholars in the humanities. He will be awarded aDoctorate of Laws.

Herbert Block

Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonistHerbert "Herblock" Block has been drawing hisopinion for about 70 years.

Best known for his career at the WashingtonPost, Block coined such terms as "McCarthyism." Hebegan as an editorial page cartoonist for theChicago Daily News when he was 19.

Block will receive a Doctorate of Arts.