THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO 8 EECOEDDecember 11, 1978 ISSN 0362-4706 An Official Publication Volume XII, Number 8THE THREE HUNDRED SEVENTIETH CONVOCATIONTHE INAUGURATION OF HANNA HOLBORN GRAYAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY6 October 1978Rockefeller Memorial ChapelRobert W. Reneker, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Presiding161 THE ORDER OF EXERCISES162 THE INVOCATION AND BENEDICTION— The Reverend E. Spencer Parsons162 THE INDUCTION OF THE PRESIDENT—Robert W. Reneker164 THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS— Hanna Holborn Gray165 THE CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES169 THE DELEGATES FROM LEARNED SOCIETIES ANDEDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS171 THE DELEGATES FROM COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIESTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER© Copyright 1978 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO RECORDTHE THREE HUNDRED SEVENTIETH CONVOCATIONTHE INAUGURATION OF HANNA HOLBORN GRAYAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY6 October 1978Rockefeller Memorial ChapelRobert W. Reneker, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, PresidingORDER OF EXERCISESTHE CONVOCATION PROCESSIONProcessional — Canzon Duodecimi Toni Giovanni GabrieliTHE INVOCATIONThe Reverend E. Spencer Parsons, Dean of Rockefeller Memorial ChapelTHE INDUCTION OF THE PRESIDENTThe Chairman of the Board of TrusteesPSALM 81"Exultate Deo" Giovanni Pierluigi da Pale strinaThe Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Choir and the Chicago Brass EnsembleRichard Vikstrom, Director of Chapel Music, conductingTHE INAUGURAL ADDRESSHanna Holborn Gray, President of the UniversityPSALM 81"Sing joyfully unto God" William By rdTHE CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREESThe Degrees were conferred by President Hanna Holborn GrayTHE ANTHEM"Jubilate Deo" Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaTHE BENEDICTIONTHE RECESSIONALFantasy in G Minor Bach161THE INVOCATIONGiven byThe Reverend E. Spencer ParsonsEternal God, by whom all things are, we stand inawe before the mystery of our days, in gratitudefor this University, and to acknowledge the intellectual contributions of the academic institutions and learned societies represented in thisassembly.As we inaugurate Hanna Holborn Gray as thetenth president of this University, let us be re-dedicated with her to the enduring claims of excellence.Deliver her and us from every equivocationborn of timidity; and from every evasion spawnedTHE INDUCTION OF THEPRESIDENTRemarks by Robert W. RenekerOctober 6, 1978It is my privilege, on behalf of the trustees of theUniversity, to welcome you — members of theUniversity, presidents and delegates from somany colleges and universities in this country andabroad, delegates of the learned societies, friendsof the University. It is a special pleasure to welcome the families and friends of Hanna andCharles Gray and, of course, to welcome back toour faculty Charles Gray.We are honored by the attendance of threeformer presidents of the University, all of themstill working here as members of our faculty.Their continuing presence is grand testimony tothe centrality of The University of Chicago intheir lives.And I want to express our gratitude to Mrs.Robert Hutchins and Mrs. Lawrence Kimpton forbeing here. They bear the memories in our mindsof more than thirty years of the happy history ofthis place.Today we might have a sense of eternity. This isa young university. There are still a few peoplealive who can recall its first building going up in1892. There are a few alumni who received theirdiplomas from Mr. Harper. We have still with us a by indifference. Let not the counterfeit coinage ofexpediency undermine the authentic currency ofhonest scholarship; and in all that we purpose forourselves and our institutions may we rememberthat truth and integrity are the indispensible prerequisites to greatness. Amen.THE BENEDICTIONLet thy benediction, O God, rest upon us andthese whom we have honored today. Keep themresolute in the pursuit of truth, modest in success,undaunted in failure, and ever loyal to thosethings in our common life that make for justiceand peace, O Lord, our Strength and Redeemer.Amen.trustee who worked with both Mr. Harper andMr. Rockefeller. But inevitably in a few yearsthings will be different. As we inaugurate a newera in the University today, we are stepping outalso, beyond our birthplace, into the long historythat Mr. Harper envisioned on the opening daywhen he talked about this University as it mightbe a "thousand years hence."In its short time the University has accomplished so much that we, too, can have faith in itsthousand years. In only a few generations themembers of this University have contributedmuch to the world we know today: not only ourunderstanding of the world, but the world itself asmen have shaped it, the world we are now tryingto understand. Anyone associated with this placequickly and seriously realizes that the Universityalready has a position of importance in the historyof mankind. This is not the kind of institution anyof us could treat lightly or casually.That seriousness is a good sign. The Universitydoes not take people lightly. Ask a questionaround here, and you will get a serious discussion.It is a profoundly human, and humane, community in that way. Of course, the intensity of discussion can sometimes leave you feeling stunned.More than one visitor must have imagined thatwhen all the members of this place are sleeping,the very stones and gargoyles go right on arguing.As it gets older, the University has more confidence about itself and about the world, too.When it began, it was the model for world universities; it had to be brash and its members must162have felt both isolated and attacked many times inthe world of learning. And in those days manypeople could not even figure out where it was. Inthe west, somewhere. We all know the story ofthe child of the Harvard scholar who decided tomove here, the child ending his night prayer:"Good-bye, God; we're going to Chicago." Mr.Harper is the first one to tell that story. One wonders whether the child was simply misunderstoodby his eavesdropping parent who could not imagine that the child might use an oath. Perhaps whatthe boy really said was: "Good! By God, we'regoing to Chicago!"Anyway, the world did learn. After all, the University taught so many of the world's teachers.Speaking of teaching, I understand some of theother universities these days are even finding theirway back to our core curriculum in the College.The national publications have been reminding usthis year that most people know now where thecity is", and that this University has shared with itscity a glory that no city could win for itself, alone.Today there is a confidence and a greater easeof spirit than before. In so many endeavors theleadership and first place of this University areaccepted and expected, that it seems natural to us.This is not an ancient foundation; it has neverbeen a terribly rich one; it always has to work alittle harder. These have been its blessings andstrengths, in a sense. But it has had a greaterblessing: a wonderful faculty which, generationafter generation, has known what the schoolstands for. As the new president observed recently in an interview, Chicago is a raritynowadays — it remains a real university: comprehensible, of human proportions, with clear andaccepted standards. And the faculty and studentsof this real University have had magnificent leadership from nine amazing men in the past: verydifferent men with very different ideas , but whoshared a great reverence for this University, andwho made leading the University the consumingand passionate concern of their lives .When we set out to search for the tenth president, we knew that there could not possibly bemore than a few people whom we might seriously consider to succeed those men in these times,when the destiny of no private institution is assured. As has happened so many times in the past,it was the support and assistance of the facultywho were partners with the trustees in making theright decision, in the election of the best possiblecandidate. I know I can speak for all the trusteeswhen I say we have absolute confidence in theTightness of that decision.Of course, there have been many press storiesabout firsts and about setting precedents. We willaccept the praise we get, naturally, but when weelected our president we had something muchmore important in mind than establishing firsts orsetting precedents. Besides, Chicago, from itsvery foundation, declared itself open to all intellectually qualified applicants and it has lived byits promise. If we have to cite a first, I suppose wemight point out that the tenth president is the firstchief executive of the University who was bornoutside the United States. We will take credit forthat precedent-setting global outlook in our deliberations.I do think all of us rejoice on this day. TheUniversity's history has been glorious, its placeassured. It is its future, its destiny, that we wholove it wonder and worry about. That is why thisinauguration is so important to us. To be the president of The University of Chicago in this time isto occupy a high and hazardous place in the epicof the human adventure. That is a wonderful position to be in. But we know we were right to haveasked Hanna Gray to accept it and she was rightto have done so. She will have the whole supportof our trustees in everything she does as presidentof this University.There are no oaths to be taken here, nor anystatutes to be read. The president is already inoffice. Today is acknowledgment and celebration.It is an honor to present to you the tenth presidentof The University of Chicago, Hanna HolbornGray.Robert W. Reneker is Chairman of the Boardof Trustees of The University of Chicago.163THE INAUGURAL ADDRESSBy Hanna Holborn GrayOctober 6, 1978Sometime around the turn of the century— and ona day, one suspects, of somewhat loweredspirits — William Rainey Harper composed an account of the sorrows and satisfactions of the presidential office. His description of administrativelife sounds unnervingly contemporary. But this isnot the occasion to dwell on its details , for, as Mr.Simon Tappertit observed, "there are strings inthe human heart that had better not be vibrated."It is more to our purpose that in the course of hisreflections Mr. Harper drew from his experiencetwo fundamental lessons:"There are," he wrote, "two common maxims,which if quoted in a form exactly the opposite of thatin which they* are in vogue, must regulate the work ofthe chief officer of a university. The first of these isthis: One should never himself do what he can in anyway find someone else to do. . . . Further, the president should never do today what by any possiblemeans he can postpone until tomorrow."It would be, to put it mildly, presumptuous forme to judge with what success and strategy mythree distinguished predecessors seated on thisplatform fulfilled Mr. Harper's precepts. And itwould, of course, be highly imprudent on my partto rush into a pledge to observe them for myself.Taken literally, Mr. Harper most surely did nothimself practice the lessons he preached. Had henot pressed on in a tearing hurry, The Universityof Chicago might very well not exist. As with somany texts, it is therefore to the spiritual and notthe literal interpretation that we must turn. And inthese terms of exegesis, the maxims of postponement and delegation express an understandingthat academic governance must be founded on informed deliberation and its quality on that of itsparticipants. Had Harper and his successors notacted in harmony with those* then in a still deepersense The University of Chicago might not exist.For it has been the paradox and strength of theUniversity's history that powerful imagination,impatient energy, and pronounced intellectualforce have at every point been made to serve thecreation and enable the guidance of an institutioncommitted to an insistent respect for process, forreasoned initiative and academic freedom, for independent and thorough argument about ends anda confident dependence on many individual competences for means.164 The successors of Mr. Harper have all sharedand supported these principles. We have overwhelming cause to declare our gratitude for theirclear convictions, their extraordinary gifts of effective service, and for the integrity with whichthey have endowed this University.The Responsible maintenance of that integrityand, with it, of the character of the academic enterprise will be, as always, the task and test of theyears ahead.That many problems with which we have todeal are not new makes them no less demandingand no more susceptible to simple solution. Thelitany of issues confronting our universities isfamiliar. We all experience the erosion and continuing limitation of the material resources onwhich the expectations and assumptions of highereducation had for some time been constructed.We all perceive the impact of inflation and theexpanding uncertainties which follow in its wake.We are aware of the transformed outlook derivedfrom changing demographic trends. We are concerned with the shifting policies and conditions ofexternal support and attitude, with all that theseimply for the future of institutional autonomy andthe continuity of academic programs. We are preoccupied with the narrowing of opportunities foryounger scholars and with all that this may meanfor the future of the academic profession and forthe vitality and renewal of the learned disciplinesand of the life of universities .These inconvenient realities cannot be arguedaway. The danger is that we should come to begoverned by the pressures and the politics of suchconstraints, and that they should come to be usedas excuses for not attending to the examination ofcrucial educational questions. That can happen ina number of ways, whether by yielding to theshort-term view in such a form as to diminish future possibility and control, or by following thepiper and so permitting, however imperceptiblyand gradually, the distortion of institutional balances and goals. A natural reaction to the troubledenvironment would be to turn inward, towafd theprotection and preservation of present territory,in a mood inhospitable to risk and to creativeimagination. In these terms, postponement — therefusal to confront uncomfortable questions— ordelegation— the assignment elsewhere of responsibility for what has happened or what needsdoing — could be the symptoms of that decline.The greatest danger, large because also least tangible and most wasting, would be to engage in anapparently principled descent to decent mediocrity. We must take care riot to emulate CardinalWolsey who, as a schoolboy once wrote, savedhis life by dying on the road from York to London.The first prescription for avoiding this peculiarpath of salvation is to take the difficult necessarysteps to decide on our own principal directions, toconcentrate on what we aim to do best, to be willing to define and to make the major choices ofinternal priority.The intellectual tradition of this University hasbeen most characteristically framed by its effortsto discover and build among different fields ofknowledge those relationships that generate newquestions for research, new methods of scholarship, a liberal breadth of teaching and of curriculum. The distinctive forms of graduate, undergraduate and professional training representedhere have, at their best, shaped a coherence whichhas made the sense of the University as a wholepredominate. That sense rests on a shared concern for those complex areas of investigation andstudy that reflect and extend the interdependencesof learning and of educated understanding.Our University has established a strong foundation on which to address its larger goals. Aboveall, we have a continuing opportunity to take upthe really interesting questions with which universities are faced and which can be a stimulus toserious and sustained deliberation on thestrengths that we should try to keep or to develop,on the ideas and risks that will be our investment.Such recurrent engagement and re-examinationare surely the measure of a university's health andof its power to act in accordance with what weprofess: namely, the ruling imperative of scrupul-Presentation of Peter R. L. Brown by Robert M.Grant, Carl Darling Buck Professor of theHumanities; Chairman, Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature; and Professor, Divinity School.Madam President, it is my privilege to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Humane Letters, Peter R. L. Brown, of theUniversity of California, Berkeley.Peter Brown's main area of scholarly concern isthe Mediterranean world from the late secondcentury through the seventh. In fairly recent timesscholars treated this period chiefly as decline, falland stagnation. With Professor Brown's leadership they are coming to see it as one of the mostimportant eras in Western history.These centuries, which saw the slow transfiguration of antique classical civilization into the very ous inquiry, precise analysis, and informed judgment in the face of complex issues and of competing claims to our allegiance.It remains to thank you all — trustees, delegates,faculty, students, distinguished guests and friends(categories that are not, I am glad to say, necessarily mutually exclusive) — thank you for yourpresence and for joining us in a common dedication to the purposes and promise of this University. I shall try to do my best in the collaborationwhich, with such generosity, you have committedto me.And now let us begin, or resume, our work. Iwas going to add, in deference to Mr. Harper'sprecept, let us begin tomorrow, or perhaps afterlunch. But our first major task is too pleasurablefor postponement. For it is the object of this convocation to celebrate the life of significant scholarship, to remind ourselves that institutions likeours have worth insofar as they create and recreate the conditions for that life and nourish itsconsequences, to reiterate our citizenship in alarger commonwealth of learning and pay tributeto the individual accomplishment that defines itsbill of rights and advances its legitimate boundaries .And that, I think, is what the award of honorarydegrees is all about. In recognizing the contribution of those who will receive them, we reaffirm, with gratitude, the standards that shape theaspirations of this university community.different world of the early Middle Ages, werecharacterized by profound spiritual transformations involving the triumph of Christianity, theend of paganism, the consolidation of rabbinicJudaism, and the rise of Islam. Few have writtenabout these transformations as creatively, perceptively and convincingly as Peter Brown. He is ableto recover the texture of a vanished world as wellas the links between inner experience and society.He provides a new model for religious and socialhistory. And he sets forth his findings in a stylenotable for its elegance.In his major works and above all in his brilliantbiography of Augustine of Hippo, he has shownthat ancient theologians can come alive not onlywithin the framework of an ancient world -view, oreven a modern theological one, but also within thecontext of the humanity which they share with allof us.THE CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES165It is my pleasure, Madam President, to presentPeter R. L. Brown for the honorary degree ofDoctor of Humane Letters.Presentation of Allan M. Campbell by Alvin Mar-kovitz, Professor, Department of Microbiologyand the College.Madam President, it is my privilege to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Science, Allan M. Campbell, of Stanford University.One of the central problems in the early historyof molecular genetics was to understand howDN A molecules interact with each other to generate new chromosome structures. We now realizethat this problem has ramifications throughout thebiological sciences, including fields such aschromosome evolution, tumor virology and cellular differentiation.Our first clear picture of how two differentDNA molecules join together came from the research of Allan Campbell. His painstaking geneticstudies of the bacterial virus A. and its associationwith the bacterial chromosome led to the formulation in 1962 of the theory now universally knownas "the Campbell Model." Before the CampbellModel was confirmed, it was successfully invokedto explain a variety of hitherto mysterious observations in molecular genetics. Furthermore, extensive experimental work in laboratoriesthroughout the world subsequently confirmed itsaccuracy.Today the Campbell Model is one of the majorelements in our understanding of how the geneticmaterial behaves in both evolution and development. The concepts of insertion and excisionthrough site-specific recombination are directingfruitful research in a large number of fields, suchas genetic instability in plants and animals, thecontrol of sexual differentiation in yeast, and themechanisms underlying the generation of the immune response.Allan Campbell is a superb experimentalist anda highly original thinker. His ability to transformgenetic data into clear explanations of chromosome mechanics provided an intellectualframework where none had existed before.It is my pleasure, Madam President, to presentAllan Campbell for the honorary degree of Doctorof Science.Presentation of Donald Thomas Campbell byDonald W. Fiske, Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and the College. Madam President, I have the honor to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Humane Letters, Donald Thomas Campbell,Morrison Professor of Psychology, NorthwesternUniversity.Distinguished psychologist and innovativemethodologist, Professor Campbell has made vitalcontributions to the analysis and improvement ofpsychological measurement, demonstrating howthe method of measurement and the obtrusivenessof the measuring process can introduce confounding biases. His major innovations in research design have reflected his concern for maximizing thequality of research on significant social problemsso that the consequent public policy decisions willbe better informed.The eminence of his work is recognized byscholars in fields beyond the behavioral sciences.The breadth of his scholarship is evident in hisphilosophical writings on evolutionary epistemol-ogy, in his publications on both methodologicaland substantive issues in cross-cultural research,and in his work on protecting the privacy of personal data in social research.In recognition of these distinguished contributions to the behavioral sciences, I have thehonor, Madam President, to present DonaldThomas Campbell for the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.Presentation of John Bertrand Gurdon by AronA. Moscona, Louis Block Professor, Departments of Biology and Pathology ; the College;and Committees on Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Immunology .Madam President, I have the honor to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Science, John Bertrand Gurdon, of the MedicalResearch Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. sJohn Gurdon has been a pioneer in the renaissance of biological research which, in the past twodecades, has resulted in extraordinary advancesin molecular, genetic, and developmental biology.During this short time the language of the geneshas been largely decoded, and the nature of signals which turn different genes on or off has comewithin reach of our understanding. The secretworld of the embryo has been opened to modernexploration, yielding new insights into the natureof cell growth, cell differentiation and cell specialization. Gurdon has greatly contributed tothese advancements which not only have expanded fundamental knowledge, but also have166improved the prospects for prevention of abnormalities in embryos and for control of malignantdiseases.In a series of classic studies, Gurdon developedmethods for removing the nucleus of an unfertilized frog egg and replacing it with a nucleusfrom a specialized tissue cell. He showed thatsuch transplanted nuclei were capable of initiatingembryonic development in eggs, and of programming them to give rise to complete organisms. This firmly established that genes do notirreversibly change during cell differentiation, andthat even nuclei of specialized cells retain the genetic information necessary for directing the development of an organism. Gurdon demonstratedthat the egg cytoplasm reactivated genes in thetransplanted nucleus, and he explored biochemical aspects of this reactivation. Control of genefunction represents a central problem in biology •and medicine, and Gurdon is bringing about itssolution.His work helped to clarify the structure andfunction of ribosomal genes. He discovered thatforeign messenger RNA can be injected into eggsand translated there into specific protein. And recently he showed that purified DNA— thebiochemical substance of genes — when introduced into eggs can furnish them with new genetic information. In his work Gurdon camecloser than others to the possibility of altering atwill the development of embryos and of cloningadult vertebrates; thereby, he has opened up afield of study with vast conceptual and practicalimplications that are only now beginning to comeinto focus.In recognition of his outstanding achievementsas an investigator and scholar, it is a privilege,Madam President, to present John Bertrand Gurdon for the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.Presentation of Ryogo Kubo by Stuart Alan Rice,Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor,Departments of Chemistry and Biophysics andTheoretical Biology, James Franck Institute, andthe College.Madam President, it is my privilege to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Science, Ryogo Kubo, of the University of Tokyo. Ryogo Kubo has been, for more than thirtyyears, a leader in the development of the statistical molecular theory of the behavior of matter inbulk. His contributions have spanned the vastsubject matter of his discipline and have deeplyinfluenced the way we describe observations andhow we think about molecular motion. Professor Kubo early recognized the subtletyand importance for macroscopic observations ofmolecular dynamics on different time scales. Heemployed this idea to develop a now universallyused theory of lineshapes in magnetic resonancespectra, a theory so fundamental that it has recently been extended to describe optical processes in coherent laser fields. He has developed aformalism relating the transport coefficient descriptive of electrical conductivity, diffusion,thermal conductivity and others, to autocorrelation functions of microscopic fluxes. These formulae are now recognized as foundation stones ofthe modern molecular theory of irreversible processes. They provide both a practical algorithmand a deep insight into the nature of the regressionof fluctuations and the relationship of fluctuationsto dissipative behavior. In addition, stimulated bythis way of studying irreversible processes,numerous offshoots treating of differentphenomena, for example the rates of chemical reactions, have followed from others obviously influenced by Kubo. Professor Kubo has also been apioneer in generalizing the study of Brownian motion, showing how it is characteristic of the behavior of all matter and inventing new methods for itsquantitative representation. These ideas have ledto advances in the statistical theory of matter asdiverse as the analysis of neutron scattering andnonlinear optics.Ryogo Kubo has, by the originality of his contributions, influenced and greatly augmented ourunderstanding of the relationship between themacroscopic behavior of matter and the underlying molecular interaction. He is a theoretician inthe great tradition, one who studies and elucidatesthe largest of problems, and it is an honor, MadamPresident, to present him for the honorary degreeof Doctor of Science.Presentation of Peter Dennis Mitchell byWolfgang Epstein, Associate Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics andTheoretical Biology and the College; Chairman,Committee on Genetics.Madam President, it is my privilege to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Science, Peter Dennis Mitchell, of the GlynnResearch Laboratory, Bodmin, Cornwall, England.Peter Mitchell's theoretical and experimentalwork has elucidated the mechanism of a fundamental cell process: the transformation of energyby cell membranes. In 1961 he proposed thechemiosmotic theory which accounted for the167interconversion of different forms of energy bypostulating a common energetic intermediate,namely an electrochemical potential for protonsacross membranes. Elegant in its simplicity, yetprofound in its scope, this theory provided a radically new and unifying insight into such life processes as photosynthesis, respiration, the transport of molecules across membranes and themotility of bacteria, previously considered unrelated. His theory was slow to be accepted, leaving Peter Mitchell to develop it virtually single-handedly for some years. He made important predictions about the organization of enzymes inmembranes and developed new experimental approaches to the study of membrane function. Thesuccess of his theory in explaining puzzling dataand predicting new facts gradually led to its general acceptance. Today it is a central concept ofmembrane function and organization, influencingvirtually all contemporary work in the field.In recognition of his outstanding achievements,Madam President, it is my pleasure to presentPeter Dennis Mitchell for the honorary degree ofDoctor of Science.Presentation ofBengt Samuelsson by Josef Fried,Louis Block Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ben May Laboratory forCancer Research, and the College; Chairman,Department of Chemistry .Madam President, it is my privilege to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Science, Sengt Samuelsson of the KarolinskaInstitute in Stockholm. In the course of the pastfifteen years Bengt Samuelsson has, by superiorinsight and superb experimentation, assumed aleading role in the field of prostaglandins andthromboxanes, a family of powerful bioregulatorspresent in mammalian cells.Based on ingenious isotopic labeling and massspectrometric studies he proposed an en-doperoxide structure for a key intermediate in thebiosynthesis of the prostaglandins, a structurewhich he was later able to verify by isolation andfull chemical characterization. This unstable substance turned out to be the precursor not only ofthe prostaglandins but of the thromboxanes andpostacyclins as well.His discovery and chemical characterization ofthromboxane A, an even shorter-lived substancecausing platelet aggregation and increased bloodpressure in animals, as a product of further enzymatic change of the endoperoxide intermediate,represent a milestone in biochemical research. Samuelsson' s work is always characterized bysuperb planning, incisiveness of reasoning andelegance of execution. The wider significance ofhis discovery of the thromboxanes as potentialregulators of cardiovascular events can only bespeculated on at this time. There is no question,however, that their discovery is providing powerful new stimuli for research in chemistry, biologyand medicine. It is an honor, Madam President, topresent Bengt Samuelsson for the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.Presentation of Herbert Ely Scarf by CrisostomoB. Garcia, Associate Professor, Graduate Schoolof Business.Madam President, I have the honor to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Humane Letters, Herbert Ely Scarf, StanleyResor Professor of Economics at Yale University.A set of prices that will equilibrate a system ofmarkets is central to Adam Smith's theory of theinvisible hand. The existence, uniqueness andstability of equilibrating price sets and the processes by which equilibria are achieved have occupied much of the attention of leading contributors to economic science, including LeonWalras, Abraham Wald, John VonNeuman, PaulSamuelson and Kenneth Arrow. Herbert Scarfsown contribution to this intellectual tradition isample justification for his inclusion in this distinguished company. By devising algorithms for thecomputation of economic equilibria, he has stimulated a veritable flood of scholarship in economics, operations research, applied mathematics andengineering.His other original and influential contributionsto economic theory include important papers oninventory theory, the first generalization ofEdge worth's theorem on the limit of the core of aneconomy, the first example of instability of a classical dynamical economic system of theSamuelson- Arrow- Hurwicz type, and his theoremon the nonemptiness of the core of a game withoutside payment in coalition form.In recognition of these accomplishments,Madam President, it is my pleasure to presentHerbert Ely Scarf for the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.Presentation of Franco Venturi by Julius Kirsh-ner, Associate Professor, Department of Historyand the College.Madam President, I have the honor to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctor168of Humane Letters, Franco Venturi, Professor ofModern History, of the University of Torino .Professor Venturi' s epoch-making history ofthe populist and socialist movements intwentieth-century Russia has established him as aworld authority on the Russian Revolution, in theSoviet Union as well as in the West, an unprecedented achievement.His books, articles and reviews have altered ourunderstanding of Italy during the Enlightenment;the traditional perspective of the Enlightenmentas a French and English phenomenon has finallygiven way to a new pan-European perspective inwhich Italy holds a central position. As editor ofan important series, he has made accessible theworks of the leading figures of the Italian Enlightenment. These editions and studies have ledto his greatest work, a monumental, multi-volumestudy of the Italian reform movement.As editor-in-chief for more than twenty years ofone of the most distinguished journals in theworld, Professor Venturi has helped to free thewriting of history from anachronism, nationalism,and idealism.For over a half century the dominant voice inintellectual history has been that of BenedettoCroce, in whose view intellectual life was separateand stood above politics and society. ProfessorVenturi has given a new direction to Italianstudies by brilliantly demonstrating the mutual relationships among ideas, institutions, and events.It is my pleasure, Madam President, to presentFranco Venturi for the honorary degree of Doctorof Humane Letters.American Philosophical SocietyFOUNDED 1743Dr. Charles B. HugginsPhi Beta KappaFOUNDED 1776Mr. Irving Dilliard, National HistorianAmerican Academy of Arts and ScienceFOUNDED 1780Mr. David Easton, CouncilorAmerican Oriental SocietyFOUNDED 1842Mr. Robert D. Biggs, President, Middle-WestBranch Presentation of Steven Weinberg by HellmutFritzsche, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physics; and Professor, JamesFranck Institute and the College.Madam President, I have the honor to presentas a candidate for the honorary degree of Doctorof Science, Steven Weinberg, of Harvard University.One of physicists' fondest dreams is to find atheory that explains the four basic forces ofnature— gravitational, electromagnetic, the weakand the strong nuclear forces— as manifestationsof the same underlying phenomenon.Weinberg's work on unifying the weak and electromagnetic interactions is one of the major breakthroughs of modern physics and is frequentlylikened to Maxwell's unification of electricity andmagnetism in, the nineteenth century.The electromagnetic and weak forces are seenas unified in Weinberg's theory in the sense that,at much higher energies than accessible in anyaccelerator today, but comparable to particleenergies in the early hot stages of the universe in a"big-bang" model, the two forces become comparable in their effect.A triumph of the theory formulated by Weinberg and Salam was the prediction of neutralquanta that carry forces between particles. Theexistence and the predicted nonconservation ofparity of these neutral currents have been confirmed by experiments.It is my pleasure, Madam President, to presentSteven Weinberg for the honorary degree of Doctor of Science.Smithsonian InstitutionFOUNDED 1846Mr. Charles Blitzer, Assistant SecretaryChicago Medical SocietyFOUNDED 1850Dr. Clifton L. ReederAmerican Geographical SocietyFOUNDED 1852Miss Sarah K. Myers, DirectorAmerican Pharmaceutical AssociationFOUNDED 1852Mr. Philip Sacks, Past PresidentTHE DELEGATES FROM LEARNED SOCIETIES ANDEDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS169American Dental AssociationFOUNDED 1859Dr. Frank J. OrlandAmerican Philological AssociationFOUNDED 1869Mr. A. W. H. AdkinsAssociation of American Medical CollegesFOUNDED 1876Dr. J. Robert BuchananAmerican Surgical AssociationFOUNDED 1880Dr. Oliver H. BeahrsAmerican Association of University WomenFOUNDED 1882Dr. Marjorie Bell Chambers, PresidentAmerican Historical AssociationmFOUNDED 1884Mr. John Hope Franklin, President-ElectAmerican Economic AssociationFOUNDED 1885Mr. John F. McDonaldSigma XiFOUNDED 1886Mr. David GottliebAmerican Physiological SocietyFOUNDED 1887Dr. Harry A. FozzardAmerican Association of AnatomistsFOUNDED 1888Dr. William BondareffAmerican Pediatrics SocietyFOUNDED 1888Dr. Albert Dorfman, President-ElectGeological Society of AmericaFOUNDED 1888Mr. Finley C. BishopAmerican Dialect SocietyFOUNDED 1889Mr. Raven I. McDavid, Jr.American Society of ZoologistsFOUNDED 1890Dr. Neenab SchwartzAmerican Psychological AssociationFOUNDED 1892Miss Nancy Hirschberg Association of American Law SchoolsFOUNDED 1900Mr. John E. Cribbet, President-ElectCollege Entrance Examination BoardFOUNDED 1900Mr. Roy E. Halladay, Director, MidwesternRegional OfficeAmerican Anthropological AssociationFOUNDED 1902Mrs. Susan Tax FreemanAmerican Political Science AssociationFOUNDED 1903Mr. Leon G. Epstein, PresidentAssociation of American GeographersFOUNDED 1904Mr. Marvin W. Mikesell, Past PresidentAmerican Sociological AssociationFOUNDED 1905Mr. Raymond W. MackPhi Delta Kappa InternationalFOUNDED 1906Mr. Leodies U. ArburthaAmerican College of SurgeonsFOUNDED 1913Dr. George W. StephensonAmerican Physical SocietyFOUNDED 1914Mr. Norman F. Ramsey, PresidentBotanical Society of AmericaFOUNDED 1914Mr. Manfred RuddatAmerican Association of University ProfessorsFOUNDED 1915Mr. Chester E. EisingerAmerican Council on EducationFOUNDED 1918Mr. J. W. Peltason, PresidentAmerican Council of Learned SocietiesFOUNDED 1919Mr. R. M. Lumiansky, PresidentAmerican Meteorological SocietyFOUNDED 1919Mr. Chester W. Newton, President-Elect170American Association of Community andJunior CollegesFOUNDED 1920Dr. Ralph H. Lee, Member, Board of DirectorsSocial Science Research CouncilFOUNDED 1923Miss Eleanor B. Sheldon, PresidentPierpont Morgan LibraryFOUNDED 1924Mr. Charles Ryskamp, DirectorMedieval Academy of AmericaFOUNDED 1925Mr. James D. Breckenridge, Past CouncillorGenetics Society of AmericaFOUNDED 1932Mrs. Janice B. SpoffordAmerican Musicological SocietyFOUNDED 1934Mr. Howard Mayer Brown, President-Elect International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological SciencesFOUNDED 1934Mr. Sol Tax, Honorary PresidentAssociation of Theological Schools in theUnited States and CanadaFOUNDED 1936Mr. Charles Shelby RooksEducational Testing ServiceFOUNDED 1947Mrs. Jayjia Hsia, Director, Midwestern Regional OfficeAssociated Colleges of the MidwestFOUNDED 1958Mr. Dan M. Martin, PresidentNational Academy of EducationFOUNDED 1965Mr. Stephen K. BaileyTHE DELEGATES FROM COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIESUniversity of Oxfordfounded 13th CenturyMr. William J. BarberHarvard UniversityFOUNDED 1636Mr. Hermon D. SmithYale UniversityFOUNDED 1701Mr. A. Bartlett Giamatti, PresidentUniversity of PennsylvaniaFOUNDED 1740Mr. Frank R. MilnorPrinceton UniversityFOUNDED 1746Mr. Arnold M. BerlinColumbia UniversityFOUNDED 1754Mr. Daniel J. EdelmanBrown UniversityFOUNDED 1764Mr. Richard M. Rieser, Jr. Dartmouth CollegeFOUNDED 1769Mr. Leonard M. Rieser, Vice-President andDean of FacultyDickinson CollegeFOUNDED 1773Mr. Sam A. Banks, PresidentUniversity of PittsburghFOUNDED 1787Mr. Marshall GoldbergGeorgetown UniversityFOUNDED 1789The Honorable J. Edward DayUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillFOUNDED 1789Mr. Herman Howe FussierOhio UniversityFOUNDED 1804Mr. Paul Brickman, TrusteeUniversity of MarylandFOUNDED 1807Mr. John S. Toll, President171Union Theological Seminary in VirginiaFOUNDED 1812Mr. Mark L. TaylorUniversity of MichiganFOUNDED 1817Mr. Clifford A. DeanUniversity of CincinnatiFOUNDED 1819Dr. John P. McCall, Senior Vice-President andProvostColgate UniversityFOUNDED 1819Mr. George D. Langdon, Jr., PresidentUniversity of VirginiaFOUNDED 1819Mr. Nathan A. Scott, Jr.Indiana UniversityFOUNDED 1820Mr. Robert O'Neil, Vice-PresidentMcGill UniversityFOUNDED 1821Dr. Samuel SchrageMedical University of South CarolinaFOUNDED 1824Dr. Leon I. GoldbergMcCormick Theological SeminaryFOUNDED 1829Mr. Jack L. Stotts, PresidentOberlin CollegeFOUNDED 1831Mr. John N. Stern, TrusteeStephens CollegeFOUNDED 1833Mrs. Mary Anne GoldbergWake Forest UniversityFOUNDED 1834Mr. James R. Scales, PresidentOglethorpe University, Inc.FOUNDED 1835Dr. Manning M. Pattillo, Jr., PresidentKnox College xFOUNDED 1837Mr. E. Inman Fox, PresidentRush UniversityFOUNDED 18^7 -Dr. James Allan Campbell, President Acadia UniversityFOUNDED 1838Dr. Alan Sinclair, President and VicChancellorDuke UniversityFOUNDED 1838Mr. John Alexander McMahon, ChairmaBoard of TrusteesUniversity of MissouriFOUNDED 1839Mr. George A. Russell, Chancellor, Universiof Missouri- Kansas CityUniversity of Notre DameFOUNDED 1842The Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.CPresidentMeadville Theological School of Lomba:CollegeFOUNDED 1844Mr. John C. Godbey, Academic DeanBeloit CollegeFOUNDED 1846Miss Martha Peterson, PresidentBucknell UniversityFOUNDED 1846Mr. Robert E. Streeter, TrusteeGrinnell CollegeFOUNDED 1846Mr. Tetsuo NajitaCity University of New YorkFOUNDED 1847Mr. Joel Segall, President, Bernard M. BaruCollege of the City University of New YorkUniversity of IowaFOUNDED 1847Mr. Philip G. HubbardLawrence UniversityFOUNDED 1847Mr. Thomas S. Smith, PresidentSaint Xavier CollegeFOUNDED 1847Sister Mary Irenaeus Chekouras, PresidentUniversity of RochesterFOUNDED 1850Mr. W. Allen Wallis, Chancellor111Coe CollegeFOUNDED 1851Mr. Leo L. Nussbaum, PresidentNorthwestern UniversityFOUNDED 1851Mr. Robert H. Strotz, PresidentRipon CollegeFOUNDED 1851Mr. David L. Harris, Dean of MenSaint Michael's CollegeFOUNDED 1852Mr. EC. LeBel, PresidentCornell CollegeFOUNDED 1853Mr. Robert Lewis, DeanGarrett Evangelical Theological SeminaryFOUNDED 1853Mr. Merlyn W. Northfelt, PresidentMonmouth CollegeFOUNDED 1853 'Mr. DeBow Freed, PresidentWashington UniversityFOUNDED 1853Mr. John P. HeinzUniversity of WisconsinFOUNDED 1854Mr. Lee G. PondromChicago Theological SeminaryFOUNDED 1855Mr. Charles Shelby Rooks, PresidentMichigan State UniversityFOUNDED 1855Mr. Leslie W. Scott, Vice-President, DevelopmentLake Forest CollegeFOUNDED 1857Dr. Eugene Hotchkiss, PresidentIowa State University of Science andTechnologyFOUNDED 1858Mr. Thomas Joseph MurphyAugustana College (Illinois)FOUNDED 1860Dr. C. W. Sorensen, President Emeritus Bard CollegeFOUNDED 1860Mr. Leon Botstein, PresidentLutheran School of Theology in ChicagoFOUNDED 1860Mr. William E. Lesher, PresidentWheaton College (Illinois)FOUNDED I860Mr. Peter Veltman, DeanMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyFOUNDED 1861Mr. Karl R. Van TasselKansas State UniversityFOUNDED 1863Dr. John Howard RustCarleton CollegeFOUNDED 1866Mr. Gail MelickUniversity of KansasFOUNDED 1866Mr. Jay B. Stray erUniversity of IllinoisFOUNDED 1867Mr. John E. Corbally, PresidentUniversity of Illinois, UrbanaFOUNDED 1867Mr. William P. Gerberding, ChancellorChicago State UniversityFOUNDED 1869Mr. Benjamin H. Alexander, PresidentNortheastern Illinois UniversityFOUNDED 1869Mr. Ronald Williams, PresidentPurdue UniversityFOUNDED 1869Miss Janet Nothhelfer ConnorSouthern Illinois University, CarbondaleFOUNDED 1869Mr. Warren W. Brandt, PresidentUniversity of NebraskaFOUNDED 1869Mr. Ronald W. Roskens, PresidentLoyola University of ChicagoFOUNDED 1870The Reverend James F. Maguire, S.J., Chancellor Emeritus173Ohio State UniversityFOUNDED 1870Dr. Albert J. Kuhn, ProvostSyracuse UniversityFOUNDED 1870Mrs. Lester Crown, TrusteeElmhurst CollegeFOUNDED 1871Dr. Ivan E. Frick, PresidentVanderbilt UniversityFOUNDED 1873Mr. C. Malcolm MossColorado CollegeFOUNDED 1874Dr. Walter L. PalmerMacalester CollegeFOUNDED 1874Mr. Mark A. Vander PloegSt. Olaf CollegeFOUNDED 1874Mr. Sidney A. Rand, PresidentBrigham Young UniversityFOUNDED 1875Mr. Dallin H. Oaks, PresidentJohns Hopkins UniversityFOUNDED 1876Mr. Herschel L. Seder, TrusteeMeharry Medical CollegeFOUNDED 1876Dr. Raymond A. Pierce, TrusteeJackson State UniversityFOUNDED 1877Mr. Melvin JacksonUniversity of Southern CaliforniaFOUNDED 1880Miss Margaret M. KirchmanAmerican School of Classical StudiesFOUNDED 1881Miss Mabel L, LangBethany College (Kansas)FOUNDED 1881The Reverend Paul V. Berggren, Board of DirectorsMarquette UniversityFOUNDED 1881The Reverend John P. Raynor, S.J., President Tuskegee InstituteFOUNDED 1881Dr. Floyd RussawUniversity of ConnecticutFOUNDED 1881Mr. Robert SubkowskyUniversity of Texas, AustinFOUNDED 1883Dr. Lorene L. Rogers, PresidentBryn Mawr CollegeFOUNDED 1885Miss Mary McPherson, PresidentFlorida Southern CollegeFOUNDED 1885Dr. Charles Tinsley Thrift, Jr., ChancellorNational College of EducationFOUNDED 1886Mr. Glenn Heck, Vice-President for Institutional AdvancementCatholic University of AmericaFOUNDED 1887Mr. Michael Von MandelClark UniversityFOUNDED 1887Dr. George F. O'BrienIllinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of LawFOUNDED 1887Mr. Lewis M. Collens, DeanColumbia CollegeFOUNDED 1890Mr. Mirrori Alexandroff, PresidentCalifornia Institute of TechnologyFOUNDED 1891Dr. Robert F. Christy, Vice-President and ProvostNorth Park CollegeFOUNDED 1891Miss Rita StrombeckIllinois Institute of TechnologyFOUNDED 1892Mr. Maynard P. Venema, Chairman, Board ofTrusteesHood CollegeFOUNDED 1893The Honorable J. Edward Day, Trustee\1ADisciples Divinity House of the Universityof ChicagoFOUNDED 1894Mr. Don S. Browning, DeanAmerican UniversityFOUNDED 1896Mrs. Mark LeopoldClarkson College of TechnologyFOUNDED 1896Mr. Donald C. ClarkBradley UniversityFOUNDED 1897Dr. John C. Hitt, Vice-President for AcademicAffairsDePaul UniversityFOUNDED 1898The Reverend John R. Cortelyou, CM., PresidentElizabethtown CollegeFOUNDED 1899The Reverend Robert E. FausWestern Illinois UniversityFOUNDED 1899Dr. Leslie F. Malpass, PresidentChicago College of Osteopathic MedicineFOUNDED 1900Dr. Robert A. Kistner, Vice-PresidentNorthern State CollegeFOUNDED 1901Mr. Joseph M. McFadden, PresidentRosary CollegeFOUNDED 1901Sister Candida Lund, PresidentLoma Linda UniversityFOUNDED 1905Dr. Godfrey T. Anderson, PresidentUniversity of RedlandsFOUNDED 1907Mr. Robert W. Hunker, TrusteeCity Colleges of ChicagoFOUNDED 1911Mr, Oscar E. Shabat, ChancellorAquinas CollegeFOUNDED 1922Mr, Norbert Hruby, President Hebrew Theological CollegeFOUNDED 1922Rabbi Irving J. Rosenbaum, PresidentSpertus College of JudaicaFOUNDED 1925Dr. David Weinstein, PresidentScripps CollegeFOUNDED 1926Mr. John H. Chandler, PresidentBob Jones UniversityFOUNDED 1927Dr. Wayne Van Gelderen, TrusteeIndiana Institute of TechnologyFOUNDED 1930Mr. Thomas F. Scully, PresidentMundelein CollegeFOUNDED 1930Sister Susan Rink, B.V.M., PresidentSeabury- Western Theological SeminaryFOUNDED 1933The Very Reverend O. C. Edwards, Jr., President and DeanWest Georgia CollegeFOUNDED 1933Mr. Elmo M. RoberdsEastern New Mexico UniversityFOUNDED 1934Mr. Jerry PoolJesuit School of Theology in ChicagoFOUNDED 1934The Reverend William G. Guindon, S.J., President and DeanWilbur Wright CollegeFOUNDED 1934Mr. Ernest V. Clements, PresidentHellenic CollegeFOUNDED 1937Mr. Thomas C. LeLon, PresidentFairfield UniversityFOUNDED 1942Mr. Thomas FitzgeraldRoosevelt UniversityFOUNDED 1945Mr, Rolf A. Weil, President175State University of New York, BinghamtonFOUNDED 1946Mr. S. Stewart Gordon, Executive Vice-President EmeritusSt. John Fisher CollegeFOUNDED 1948The Reverend John J. Fiore, C.S.B.Jamestown Community CollegeFOUNDED 1950Dr. Roger C. Seager, PresidentCalifornia State University, DominguezHillsFOUNDED 1960Mr. Donald R. Gerth, PresidentChabot CollegeFOUNDED 1961Dr. Reed L. Buffington, PresidentCijy Colleges of Chicago, Loop CollegeFOUNDED 1962Mr. David H. Heller, PresidentUniversity of Illinois, ChicagoFOUNDED 1965Mr. Donald H. Riddle, Chancellor William Rainey Harper CollegeFOUNDED 1965Mr. James J. McGrath, PresidentCollege of Du PageFOUNDED 1966Mr. Lon A. Gault, Dean of InstructionCatholic Theological UnionFOUNDED 1967The Reverend Alcuin Coyle, O.F.M., PresidentCollege of Lake CountyFOUNDED 1968Dr. John O. Hunter, PresidentGovernors State UniversityFOUNDED 1969Mr. Leo Goodman-Malamuth II, PresidentSangamon State UniversityFOUNDED 1969Mr. Alex B. Lacy, Jr., PresidentMaharishi International UniversityFOUNDED 1971Mr. Lawrence H. Damash, PresidentCity Colleges of Chicago, Chicago City-wide CollegeFOUNDED 1976Mr. Salvatore G. Rotella, President176THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO RECORDVICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRSRoom 200, Administration Buildingo Z' "3 I _ omj c 3¦3D P •v2.POSTAGAID10,ILLINTNO.31 Oc3I-* O m•ft — oCO 3