THE UNIVERSITY 0 f CHI CAGOFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER{�J MAY 1,.) 1967 t:�.! ._ :OJ.._..._._____ /' TheThree Hundred EighteenthCONVOCATIONThe Seventy-fifih AnniversaryMay FifthA.D. Nineteen Hundred Sixty-sevenROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CHAPELIn Celebration ofThe Seventy-fifih AnniversaryTen 0' clockGEORGE W. BEADLEt President of the University, PresidingTHE CONVOCATION PROCESSIONPROCESSIONAL-Canzon Primi Toni(The congregation standing until the Invocation) Giovanni GabrieliThe Marshal of the U niversi tyThe Faculties of the UniversityThe Trustees and Administrative OfficersThe Dean of the University ChapelThe Candidates for Honorary Degrees and Their EscortsThe Provost of the UniversityThe President of the UniversityTHE INVOCATIONE. SPENCER PARSONSDean, Rockefeller Memorial ChapelINTRODUCTORY STATEMENTFAIRFAXM. CONEChairman of the Board of TrusteesTHE CONVOCATION ADDRESSGEORGE W. BEADLEPresident of the UniversityTHE ANTHEM"0, clap your hands" (From Psalm 47) Ralph Vaughan Williams0, clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.For the Lord most high is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth.God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises unto our King, sing praises;For God is King of all the earth; sing ye praises everyone that hath understanding.God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of His holiness.Sing praises unto our King, sing praises.The Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Brass EnsembleRICHARD VIKSTROMDirector of Chapel MusicTHE CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREESCandidates presented by LEON O. JACOBSON, Joseph Regenstein Professor ofBiological and Medical Sciences and Dean of the Division of the BiologicalSciences.For the Degree of Doctor of Science:KENNETH STEWART COLE, Senior Research Biophysicist, Laboratory of Bio­physics, National Institutes of Health, and Professor of Biophysics, Division ofMedical Physics, University of California, BerkeleyOne of the first to apply the concepts and methods of physics to the study ofthe excitation and response of living cells.The candidate will be escorted by DWIGHT J. INGLE, Professor and Chairman,Department of Physiology.MAX DELBRUCK, Professor of Biology, Division of Biology, California Instituteof TechnologyPhysicist, biologist, founder of modem bacteriophage studies; teacher, critic,and goad to an entire generation of molecular biologists.The candidate will be escorted by ROBERT LANGRIDGE, Professor, Departmentof Biophysics.ALFRED DAY HERSHEY, Director, Genetics Research Unit, Carnegie Institu­tion of WashingtonGeneticist, whose occasionally lonely and always inspired watch over the bac­teriophage has been rewarded by some of the most fundamental discoveries inmolecular biology.The candidate will be escorted by ROBERT B. URETZ, Professor and Chairman,Department of Biophysics.SALVADOR E. LURIA, Professor of Microbiology, Department of Biology,Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMicrobiologist and geneticist, whose pioneering studies of the mutation processand of bacteriophage duplication helped lay the foundation of moleculargenetics.The candidate will be escorted by JAMES W. MOULDER, Professor and Chair­man, Department of Microbiology.ALBERTO MONROY, Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Head, MolecularEmbryology Unit, University of Palermo, ItalyChallenging teacher and outstanding man of research, whose pioneering workon initiation of embryonic development has enriched the fields of develop­mental and molecular biology.The candidate will be escorted by ARON A. MOSCONA, Professor, Departmentof Zoology.Candidates presented by ROBERT E. STREETER, Professor of English and Deanof the Division of the HumanitiesFor the Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters:NOAM AVRAM CHOMSKY, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modem Languagesand Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLinguist and philosopher, whose profound studies of the nature of languagehave altered the course of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology in our time.The candidate will be escorted by JAMES D. MCCAWLEY, Assistant Professor,Department of Linguistics.NORTHROP FRYE, Professor of English Literature and Principal, Victoria Col­lege, University of Toronto, Ontario, CanadaLiterary scholar, critic, and teacher, whose, wideranging and synthesizing mindhas been a brilliant impetus to humanistic studies and education.The candidate will be escorted by GWIN J. KOLB, Professor and Chairman,Department of English Language and Literature.WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Hss­vard UniversityPhilosopher, logician, and teacher, whose development of mathematical logic asa tool of philosophical analysis and criticism has given new precision and mean­ing to the perennial problems of philosophy.The candidate will be escorted by MANLEY H. THOMPSON, JR., Professor andChairman, Department of Philosophy.EDWIN O. REISCHAUER, University Professor, Harvard UniversityDistinguished scholar and influential teacher, whose work on the history, litera­ture, and language of pre-modern and modern Japan has enriched our under­standing of the significance of Japanese civilization.The candidate will be escorted by EDWIN MCCLELLAN, Professor, Departmentof Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Chairman, Committee on FarEastern Studies.Candidates presented by A. ADRIAN ALBERT, EIiakim Hastings Moore Dis­tinguished Service Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Division of thePhysical Sciences.F or the Degree of Doctor of Science:NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH BOGOLUBOV, Member, Academy of Sciences ofthe U.S.S.R., and Director, Joint Institute ot Nuclear Research, Dubna,U.S.S.R.Mathematician and theoretical physicist extraordinary, whose imagination andrigor have enriched nearly all fields of physics.The candidate will be escorted by MORREL H. COHEN, Professor, Institute forthe Study of Metals and Department of Physics.MURRAY GELL-MANN, Protessor ot Physics, Alfred P. Sloan Laboratory otMathematics and Physics, California Institute oi TechnologyExplorer, on the deepest theoretical level, of the constitution of matter and ofits interactions, who has extracted simplicity and beauty out of complex situa­tions; giving us what amounts today to a periodic system of elementary particles.The candidate will be escorted by ROGER H. HILDEBRAND, Professor, Depart­ment of Physics, and Professor and Director, Enrico Fermi Institute for Nu­clear Studies.GERHARD HERZBERG, Director, Division ot Pure Physics, National ResearchCouncil oi Canada, Ontario, CanadaDistinguished scientist, whose profound studies in spectroscopy have advancedour knowledge of the structures of molecules.The candidate will be escorted by STUART A. RICE, Professor, Department ofChemistry, and Professor and Director, Institute for the Study of Metals.HAR GOBIND KHORANA, Professor of Biochemistry, Institute tor EnzymeResearch, University of WisconsinDistinguished chemist and biochemist, whose brilliant research on the synthesisof polynucleotides has profoundly advanced our understanding of the geneticcode.The candidate will be escorted by JACK HALPERN, Professor, Department ofChemistry.JEAN LERA Y, Professor, College de FranceMathematician of penetration and originality, whose inventions revolutionizedpartial differential equations and algebraic topology.The candidate will be escorted by ALBERTO P. CALDERON, Professor, Depart­ment of Mathematics.JOHN WILLARD MILNOR, University Professor of Mathematics, PrincetonUniversityGenerally acknowledged as a topologist of the first rank, his most single con­tribution was the totally unexpected discovery of exotic differentiable struc­tures on spheres.The candidate will be escorted by RICHARD K. LASHOFF, Professor, Departmentof Mathematics.ALLAN R. SANDAGE, Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Insti­tution ot Washington, and Mount Palomar Observatory, California Instituteol TechnologyAn astronomer of great originality, who has enlarged our horizon by his funda­mental contributions to cosmology and to our knowledge of the evolution ofstars and the constitution of galaxies, and by his discoveries relating to quasi­steIIar objects.The candidate will be escorted by S. CHANDRASEKHAR, Morton D. HullDistinguished Service Professor of Astrophysics, Departments of Astronomyand Astrophysics and of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute for the Studyof Metals.Candidates presented by CHAUNCY D. HARRIS, Professor of Geography andDirector, Center for International Studies.For the Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters:HENRY CLIFFORD DARBY, Professor of Geography, University oi Cambridge,EnglandScholar and teacher, whose study of the Domesday geography of England hasenlarged our knowledge of historical geography.The candidate will be escorted by WESLEY CALEF, Professor and Chairman,Department of Geography.HAJO HOLBORN, Sterling Professor of History, Yale UniversityExemplary historian, whose studies ranging from the Renaissance to the pres·ent age, and from the diplomatic to the cultural activities of man, have infusednew meaning into modem history.The candidate will be escorted by LEONARD KRIEGER, University Professor,Department of History.For the Degree of Doctor of Laws:TORSTEN HUSEN, Professor and Chairman, Department of Education and theInstitute for Educational Research, University of Stockholm, SwedenEducational psychologist and research scholar, whose studies have shaped thedirection of education in Sweden and contributed to our understanding ofman's ability to learn.The candidate will be escorted by C. ARNOLD ANDERSON, Professor, Depart­ments of Education and of Sociology, and Director, Comparative EducationCenter.HAROLD D. LASSWELL, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Political Sci­ence, Yale UniversityDaring theorist, pioneer researcher, creative political philosopher, teacher of ageneration of political scientists, whose investigations have helped to iIIuminatethe complexities of twentieth-century politics.The candidate will be escorted by LEONARD BINDER, Professor and Chairman,Department of Political Science.For the Degree of Doctor of Science:CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, Professor, College de FranceProfound student of culture, whose brilliant analysis of the interrelationship ofsociety and the structure of thought has enriched a great anthropological tradi­tion.The candidate will be escorted by SOL TAX, Professor, Department of Anthro­pology, and Dean, University Extension.For the Degree of Doctor of Laws:TALCOTT PARSONS, Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityPre-eminent theorist and illuminating teacher, who has given new perspectivesto contemporary social science.The candidate will be escorted by NATHAN KEYFITZ, Professor and Chairman,Department of Sociology, and Co-director, Population Research TrainingCenter.For the Degree of Doctor of Science:B. F. SKINNER, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard UniversityPsychologist, methodologist, and social planner, whose experimental analysis ofbehavior and discovery of operant conditioning have had a far-reaching influ­ence both in basic research and in applications to learning and re-education.The candidate will be escorted by ECKHARD H. HESS, Professor and Chairman,Department of Psychology.For the Degree of Doctor of Laws:ROBERT M. SOLOW, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Tech­nologyEconomist and public servant, pre-eminent theorist, who has made major con­tributions to the economics of capital, productivity, and growth.The candidate will be escorted by GEORGE J. STIGLER, Charles R. Walgreen Dis­tinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, Department of Eco­nomics and Graduate School of Business.Candidate presented by GEORGE P. SHULTZ, Professor of Industrial Relationsand Dean of the Graduate School of BusinessF or the Degree of Doctor of Laws:FRANCO MODIGLIANI, Professor of Economics and Management, Alfred P.Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyEconomist, theorist of originality and perception, and ingenious empiricist,whose work has profoundly affected economics and business finance.The candidate will be escorted by ARNOLD ZELLNER, H. G. B. AlexanderProfessor of Economics and Statistics, Graduate School of Business.Candidate presented by JERALD C. BRAUER, Professor of Church History andDean of the Divinity SchoolFor the Degree of Doctor of Divinity:PAUL RICOEUR, Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris, FranceProfound humanistic scholar and distinguished teacher, who has helped todevelop a new method of understanding man in history and who has cham­pioned man in his freedom.The candidate will be escorted by MIRCEA ELIADE, Sewell L. Avery Dis­tinguished Service Professor of History of Religions, Divinity School, andProfessor, Committee on Social Thought.ALMA MATERToday we gladly sing the praiseOf her who owns us as her sons;Our loyal voices let us raise,And bless her with our benisons,Of all fair mothers, fairest she,Most wise of all that wisest be,Most true of all the true, say we,Is our dear Alma Mater.-E. H. LEWIS, PH.D., 1894THE BENEDICTIONTHE RECESSIONALCeremonial Music for Brass and Organ Giovanni GabrieliHONORARY DEGREES IN THESEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY YEARJULIUS AXELROD, Sc.D.PAUL M. DOTY, Sc.D.MANFRED EIGEN, Sc.D.ANNA FREUD, Sc.D. December 16, 1966RODERIC A. GREGORY, Sc.D.HERBERT LIONEL ADOLPHUS HART,LL.D.PAUL FELIX LAZARSFELD, LL.D.March 17, 1967LUIS W. ALVAREZ, Sc.D.E. B. ASTWOOD, Sc.D.KENNETH M. BRINKHOUS, Sc.D. EDWARD EVAN EVANS-PRITCHARD,Sc.D.LAWRENCE SCHLESINGER KUBIE, Sc.D.VICTOR F. WEISSKOPF, Sc.D.May 5,1967NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH BOGOLUBOV,Sc.D.NOAM AVRAM CHOMSKY, L.H.D.KENNETH STEWART COLE, Sc.D.HENRY CLIFFORD DARBY, L.H.D.MAX DELBRUCK, Sc.D.NORTHROP FRYE, L.H.D.MURRAY GELL-MANN, Sc.D.ALFRED DAY HERSHEY, Sc.D.GERHARD HERZBERG, Sc.D.HAJO HOLBORN, L.H.D.TORSTEN HUSEN, LL.D.HAR GOBIND KHORANA, Sc.D.HAROLD D. LASSWELL, LL.D. JEAN LERAY, Sc.D.CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, Sc.D.SALVADOR E. LURIA, Sc.D.JOHN WILLARD MILNOR, Sc.D.FRANCO MODIGLIANI, LL.D.ALBERTO MONROY, Sc.D.TALCOTT PARSONS, LL.D.WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE, L.H.D.EDWIN O. REISCHAUER, L.H.D.PAUL RICOEUR, D.D.ALLAN R. SANDAGE, Sc.D.B. F. SKINNER, Sc.D.ROBERT M. SOLOW, LL.D.KENNETH J. ARROW, LL.D.HEINRICH BESSELER, L.H.D. June 9, 1967. JOHN TILESTON EDSALL, Sc.D.DMITRY SERGEEVICH LIKHACHEV,L.H.D.ORGANISTEDWARD MONDELLO, University OrganistCARILLONNEURDANIEL ROBINS, University CarillonneurMARSHALHAROLD HAYDON. VICE-MARSHALGEOFFREY C. M. PLAMPINGWIN J. KOLBJAMES MAXWELL RATCLIFFEEDWARD W. ROSENHEIM, JR.WILBERT HERBERT URRYWILLIAM NATHANIEL WEAVERASSISTANT MARSHALSROBERT LOVETT ASHENHURSTLEON CARNOVSKYJOSEPH CEITHAMLROBERT J. HASTERLIKELWOOD V. JENSENSTUDENT AIDESGAIL LEE ARNOLDEMMANUEL GEORGE CASSIMATESJENNIFER ELLEN DOHRNKAREN LOUISE DRIGOTPEGGY ANNE FINSTONJAMES HENRY FREUNDMICHAEL LOUIS KLOWDENTHOMAS JULES KOTLARROBERT LOGAN LAROCQUENORA DAWN LESSER MARGARET KIMIKO MURATADANIEL JAMES OPITZRUDOLF VILEM PERINACHERYL LYNN REGISTERMARTHA PORTER SAXTONSARA ANNE SCHILLINGMICHAEL LEONARD SIEMONCHARLES DONALD STANBERRYGEORGE BERNARD WALSHROBERT HARRISON WILCOXThe swinging peal, composed of five of the larger bells of the carillon, including the eighteen­and-one-half-ton bourdon, is sounded at the end of the Convocation.