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Honorary Degree Recipients, 1918-

Brief biographical information for honorary degree recipients prior to 1918 is available in the General Catalogue of Bowdoin College for 1900-1975 and 1794-1950. Citation texts are not available prior to 1918.

This list is in reverse chronological order. To locate a specific decade choose one of the following years:
2000 / 1990 / 1980 / 1970 / 1960 / 1950 / 1940 / 1930 / 1920 / 1918-1919

Click on the name to read the honoris causa citation using Acrobat Reader.

• 2008
  • Peter Buck '52, L.H.D.
  • Yvon Chouinard, L.H.D.
  • Gina Kolata, Litt.D.
  • Lucy R. Lippard, D.A.
  • Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., L.H.D.
  • Barry N. Wish '63, L.H.D.
• 2007
  • Geoffrey Canada '74, L.H.D.
  • Roberto Díaz, Mus.D.
  • Stanley F. Druckenmiller '75, L.H.D.
  • Drew Gilpin Faust, L.H.D.
  • Angus S. King, Jr., LL.D.
• 2006
  • Roger Angell, L.H.D.
  • Nawal M. Nour, Sc.D.
  • Kiki Smith, Arts. D.
  • Beverly Daniel Tatum, L.H.D.
  • Donald M. Zuckert '56, L.H.D.
• 2005
  • Ellen Baxter '75, L.H.D.
  • Jung Chang, Litt.D.
  • Donald R. Kurtz '52, L.H.D.
  • Alan Lightman, Litt.D.
  • Frederick G.P. Thorne '57, L.H.D.
  • Frederick Wiseman, D.F.A.
• 2004
  • Eavan Boland, Litt.D.
  • Richard Goldstone, LL.D.
  • Shulamit Ran, Mus.D.
  • Dorothy Schwartz, L.H.D.
  • Torsten N. Wiesel, Sc.D.
• 2003
  • Margaret Hamburg, Sc.D.
  • Mark Morris, D.F.A.
  • Grace Paley, Litt.D.
  • Raymond S. Troubh '50, LL.D.
• 2002
  • Marsha Johnson Evans, L.H.D.
  • Edward J. McCluskey '51, Sc.D.
  • Kenneth Paigen, Sc.D.
• 2001
  • Robert H. Edwards, LL.D.
  • Maxine Kumin, Litt.D.
  • Mamphela Ramphele, LL.D.
  • Paul Simon, LL.D.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., D.F.A.
• 2000
  • Phyllis Pray Bober, L.H.D.
  • Robert Fagles, L.H.D.
  • Peter John Gomes, LL.D.
  • Bernard Osher '48, LL.D.
  
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• 1999
  • Horst Albach '56, LL.D.
  • Marvin Howe Green, Jr. '57, L.H.D.
  • Kaiulani Sewall Lee, Arts. D.
  • Cornel West, L.H.D.
• 1998
  • Jef D. Boeke '76, Sc.D.
  • Barbara Gates Bonney, L.H.D.
  • Rev. F.W. Jarvis, L.H.D.
  • Harold L. Oshry '40, LL.D.
• 1997
  • Rosalyne S. Bernstein, LL.D.
  • James M. McPherson, L.H.D.
  • Paul P. Brountas '54, LL.D.
  • Abelardo Morell, Jr. '71, D.F.A.
• 1996
  • Kenneth Irvine Chenault '73, LL.D.
  • Barbara Cooney Porter, L.H.D.
  • James Eells '47, LL.D.
  • John Francis Magee '47, LL.D.
• 1995
  • Leo Steinberg, L.H.D.
  • Jean Byers Sampson, LL.D.
  • Phillip Allen Sharp, Sc.D.
  • Ved Parkash Mehta, L.H.D.
• 1994
  • Angelo J. Eraklis '54, LL.D.
  • William Farley '64, LL.D.
  • Cho Soon '60, LL.D.
  • Doris Charrier Vladimiroff, L.H.D.
  • Richard A. Wiley '49, LL.D.
• 1993
  • John L. Thomas '48, LL.D.
  • Byllye Avery, L.H.D.
  • Lawrence B. Lindsey '76, LL.D.
  • Ying Ruocheng, L.H.D.
  • Francis C. Oakley, L.H.D.
• 1992
  • Amy Clampitt, L.H.D.
  • James A. Michener, L.H.D.
  • Katherine Porter, D.F.A.
  • Franklyn G. Jenifer, Sc.D.
• 1991
  • Kenneth Lauren Burns, L.H.D.
  • Alice Chalifoux, D.F.A.
  • Robert Brackett Elliott, L.H.D.
  • Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Ed.D.
  • John Robert McCloskey, L.H.D.
• 1990
  • Robert Barnett Binswanger, L.H.D.
  • Vance Bourjaily '44, Litt.D.
  • Norman Paul Cohen '56, LL.D.
  • A. LeRoy Greason, L.H.D.
  • Leroy Keith, Jr., LL.D.
  • Francis Massey O'Brien, Litt.D.
  • Patricia R. Plante, Litt.D.
  
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• 1989
  • Robert M. Cross, L.H.D.
  • David C. Driskell, D.F.A.
  • Charles M. Leighton, LL.D.
  • John R. McKernan, Jr., LL.D.
  • Frances W. Peabody, L.H.D.
  • Everett P. Pope, LL.D.
  • Elizabeth D. Wilson, M.A.
• 1988
  • Wilhelm Haas, LL.D.
  • Tina Howe, Litt.D.
  • Bernard Lown, Sc.D.
  • Kurt S. Ollmann, Mus.D.
  • James Russell Wiggins, Litt.D.
  • Robert L. Woodbury, L.H.D.
• 1987
  • Maya Angelou, Litt.D.
  • William R. Cotter, L.H.D.
  • John Ripley Forbes, L.H.D.
  • Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, D.F.A. (Posthumously)
  • Robley C. Wilson, Jr., D.L.H.
• 1986
  • Edward C. Andrews, Jr., Sc.D.
  • Caroline D. Glassman, LL.D.
  • J.C. Robin McKinley, Litt.D.
  • Robert C. Porter, LL.D.
• 1985
  • Joseph E. Brennan, LL.D.
  • Henry N. Cobb, D.F.A.
  • Eleanor Holmes Norton, LL.D.
  • Bernard J. O'Keefe, Sc.D.
  • Bidu Sayao, Mus.D.
  • Carolyn W. Slayman, Sc.D.
• 1984
  • Arnold R. Brossi, Sc.D.
  • Leroy D. Cross, M.A.
  • Harriet P. Henry, LL.D.
  • Merton G. Henry '50, LL.D.
  • Thomas R. Pickering '53, LL.D.
  • Lois Dickson Rice, LL.D.
  • Elizabeth Shull Russell, Sc.D.
  • Friedrich A. von Huene '53, Mus.D.
  • Adam J. Walsh, Ed.D.
• 1983
  • Frank A. Brown, Jr. '29, Sc.D. (Posthumously)
  • Leon A. Gorman '56, LL.D.
  • Philip Isaacson, D.F.A.
  • George J. Mitchell, Jr. '54, LL.D.
  • Jewel P. Cobb, L.H.D.
  • May Sarton, Litt.D.
  • Joseph Sewall '43, D.C.L.
  • Olympia J. Snowe, LL.D.
  • Philip S. Wilder, Jr. '45, L.H.D.
• 1982
  • Berenice Abbott, D.F.A.
  • Charles W. Allen '34, LL.D.
  • George H.W. Bush, LL.D.
  • Loring E. Hart '46, L.H.D.
  • Edward P. Hutchinson '27, L.H.D.
  • Charity Waymouth, Sc.D.
• 1981
  • Willis R. Barnstone '48, Litt.D.
  • John P. Bibber, D.C.L.
  • Mary T. McCarthy, Litt.D.
  • Sidney W. Wernick, LL.D.
• 1980
  • Nathan Dane II '37, L.H.D. (Posthumously)
  • William Frost '38, Litt.D.
  • Daniel F. Hanley '39, Sc.D.
  • Miriam L. MacMillan, Sc.D.
  • John B. Matthews, Jr. '43, LL.D.
  • Wade H. McCree, Jr., LL.D.
  
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• 1979
  • Betty W. Carter, Litt.D.
  • Leonard W. Cronkhite, Jr. '41, LL.D.
  • Vincent L. McKusick, LL.D.
  • Edward C. O'Leary, LL.D.
  • Aaron J. Shatkin '56, Sc.D.
• 1978
  • Roger Howell, Jr. '58, Litt.D.
  • Lee G. Paul '29, LL.D.
  • David M. Pynchon, LL.D.
  • Marvin S. Sadik, D.F.A.
  • Alden H. Sawyer '27, LL.D.
  • Alice A.S. Whittier, Sc.D.
• 1977
  • William P. Drake '36, LL.D.
  • A. Shirley Gray '18, LL.D.
  • Edward G. Hudon '37, LL.D.
  • Henry O. Pollak, Sc.D.
  • Lacey B. Smith '44, Litt.D.
  • Douglas W. Walker '35, Sc.D.
  • Ian M. White, D.F.A.
• 1976
  • Max Beloff, Litt.D.
  • George T. Davidson, Jr. '38, Ed.D.
  • Frank C. Evans '10, LL.D.
  • Sister Lucy Anne Poulin, S.T.D.
  • Walter F. Whittier '27, LL.D.
• 1975
  • Sarah Caldwell, Mus.D.
  • William S. Cohen '62, LL.D.
  • Elvin R. Latty '23, LL.D.
  • Allen H. Morgan '46, Sc.D.
  • Marvin B. Patterson, L.H.D.
  • John W. Walch '25, Ed.D.
  • Vincent B. Welch '38, LL.D.
• 1974
  • Eleanor W. Allen, LL.D.
  • Kenneth M. Curtis, LL.D.
  • David W.D. Dickson '41, L.H.D.
  • Richard L. Goldsmith '34, Ed.D.
  • John S. Johnson, Sc.D.
  • John H. Plumb, Litt.D.
  • John H. Rich, Jr. '39, Litt.D.
• 1973
  • Louis Bernstein '22, LL.D.
  • Mary I. Bunting, Sc.D.
  • Arthur Fiedler, Mus.D.
  • James F. Goodrich, LL.D.
  • William C. Pierce '28, LL.D.
  • John E. Sawyer, L.H.D.
  • Wilbert Snow '07, Litt.D.
  • Margaret J. Tibbetts, LL.D.
• 1972
  • Richard K. Barksdale '37, L.H.D.
  • Sanford B. Cousins '20, LL.D.
  • Alfred B. Harbage, Litt.D.
  • William B. Mills '29, LL.D.
  • John W. Riley, Jr. '30, LL.D.
  • Matilda W. Riley, Sc.D.
  • John W. Stevens, A.M.
  • Kenneth W. Thompson, LL.D.
• 1971
  • Albert Abrahamson '26, Sc.D.
  • Roy A. Foulke '19, LL.D.
  • John S. Holden '35, Ed.D.
  • Donald R. McNeil, LL.D.
  • Louise B. Nevelson, D.F.A.
  • Harry G. Shulman, A.M.
  • Whitney M. Young, Jr., LL.D.
• 1970
  • John L. Baxter '16, LL.D.
  • Charles Mitchell, Litt.D.
  • Everett F. Morrow '30, LL.D.
  • John K. Moulton '62, Ed.D.
  • Donald W. Webber '27, LL.D.
  • Andrew Wyeth, D.F.A.
  
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• 1969
  
  
  • Edward William Brooke, LL.D.
  • Frank Morey Coffin, LL.D.
  • Athern Park Daggett '25, LL.D.
  • Stephen Morgan Etnier, D.F.A.
  • Arthur Joseph Goldberg, LL.D.
  • George Basil Knox '29, LL.D.
  • Thomas Hedley Reynolds, LL.D.
  • Earle Spaulding Thompson '14, LL.D.
• 1968
  
  
  • James Stacy Coles, LL.D.
  • Fred Raymond Dingley, L.H.D.
  • William Chapman Foster, LL.D.
  • John William Gardner, LL.D.
  • John Thomas Gould '31, Litt.D.
  • Theodore Meyer Greene, L.H.D.
  • John Coleman Pickard '22, LL.D.
  • Leon Howard Sullivan, LL.D.
  • Marguerite Yourcenar, Litt.D.
• 1967
  
  
  • Erwin Dain Canham, LL.D.
  • William Dunning Ireland '16, LL.D.
  • Joseph Esrey Johnson, LL.D.
  • Noel Charlton Little '17, Sc.D.
  • William Howard Niblock '35, L.H.D.
  • Robert Edward Lee Strider II, LL.D.
• 1966
  
  
  • Artine Artinian '31, LL.D.
  • Carl William Buchheister, L.H.D.
  • Nathaniel Cooper Kendrick, L.H.D.
  • James McCormack, LL.D.
  • Robert Warren Morse '43, Sc.D.
  • Richard Scott Perkin, Sc.D.
  • Carl Ruggles, Mus.D.
• 1965
  
  
  • Joseph Lyman Fisher '35, Sc.D.
  • Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, LL.D.
  • Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, Litt.D.
  • Katharine Elizabeth O'Brien, L.H.D.
  • Ellison Smullen Purington '12, Sc.D.
• 1964
  
  
  • Dorothy Dennis Marsh, A.M.
  • Clifford Guy McIntire, LL.D.
  • John Rogers Newell, LL.D.
  • Clarence Dana Rouillard '24, LL.D.
  • Abram Leon Sachar, LL.D.
  • Frederick William Whittaker '44, D.D.
  • George David Woods, LL.D.
• 1963
  
  
  • Claude LeRoy Allen, Jr., A.M.
  • Elton Randolph Blaisdell '15 (M.D.), Sc.D.
  • Lloyd DeWitt Brace, LL.D.
  • Herbert Ross Brown, Litt.D.
  • Charles Austin Cary, LL.D.
  • Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, LL.D.
  • Paul Kendall Niven '16, A.M.
  • Mary Louise Curtis Zimbalist, L.H.D.
• 1962
  
  
  • Arthur Hobson Dean, LL.D.
  • William Plummer Drake, A.M.
  • Edward Thaxter Gignoux, LL.D.
  • Lawrence Lee Pelletier '36, LL.D.
  • Agnes Mosher Shumway, A.M.
  • Frank Stanton, LL.D.
  • Henry Merritt Wriston, LL.D.
• 1961
  
  
  • Neal Woodside Allen '07, A.M.
  • John Sloan Dickey, LL.D.
  • Abbie Huston Evans, LL.D.
  • Warren Gardiner Hill, L.H.D.
  • Edward Chase Kirkland, Litt.D.
  • John Bowers Matthews '18, A.M.
  • James Jeremiah Wadsworth, LL.D.
  • Robert Byron Williamson, LL.D.
• 1960
  
  
  • John Lincoln Baxter '16, A.M.
  • William Shepard Linnell '07, LL.D.
  • Karl Lott Rankin, LL.D.
  • Jasper Jacob Stahl '09, LL.D.
  • Doris Pike White, L.H.D.
  
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• 1959
  
  
  • Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, LL.D.
  • Laurence Irving '16, Sc.D.
  • Fred Clark Scribner, Jr., LL.D.
  • John Fairfield Thompson, LL.D.
  • Phyllis Carolyn Weston, M.S.
  • Donald Norton Yates, LL.D.
• 1958
  
  
  • Harold Augustus Andrews '12, LL.D.
  • Joseph Benjamin Chaplin, A.M.
  • Hugh Joseph Chisholm, LL.D.
  • Clarence Lloyd Claff '18, Sc.D.
  • William McChesney Martin, Jr., LL.D.
  • John James Pullen, Litt.D.
  • David Rockefeller, LL.D.
  • Rufus Edwin Stetson '08, Sc.D.
  • Alan Tower Waterman, Sc.D.
  • William Zorach, A.M.
• 1957
  
  
  • Winthrop Bancroft, L.H.D.
  • Warren Randolph Burgess, LL.D.
  • Helen Whitney Gibson, L.H.D.
  • John William Leydon '07, L.H.D.
  • Edmund Sixtus Muskie, LL.D.
  • Alfred Watts Newcombe '14, L.H.D.
  • Issac Mervyn Webber '17, Sc.D.
• 1956
  
  
  • Frank Whittemore Abrams, LL.D.
  • Joseph Addison Aldred '24, A.M.
  • Thomas Albert Foster '66 (M.D.), Sc.D.
  • Olin Sewall Pettingill '30, Sc.D.
  • Edward Allen Pierce, LL.D.
  • Baron Silvercruys, LL.D.
  • Hartley Fremont Simpson '22, LL.D.
  • Edward Holyoke Snow '14, L.H.D.
• 1955
  
  
  • Ezra Taft Benson, LL.D.
  • Ronald Perkins Bridges '30, D.D.
  • Victor Lloyd Butterfield, Litt.D.
  • William Francis Gibbs, Sc.D.
  • Lowell Innes, A.M.
  • Sir Roger (Lord Sherfield) Makins, LL.D.
  • Leonard Augustus Pierce, LL.D.
  • Allan Woodcock '12, Sc.D.
• 1954
  
  
  • Willard Streeter Bass '96, L.H.D.
  • Hugh John Flemming, LL.D.
  • Alfred Everett Gray '14, A.M.
  • Henry Augustus Huston '79, Sc.D.
  • Walter Piston, Mus.D.
  • Francis Harper Sleeper, Sc.D.
  • Thomas Curtis Van Cleve, Litt.D.
• 1953
  
  
  • Henry Beston, Litt.D.
  • Cyrus Stuart Ching, LL.D.
  • Gilbert Dalldorf, Sc.D.
  • Luther Dana '03, A.M.
  • John Williams Frost '04, LL.D.
  • Walter Hoyt Kennett, Sr., A.M.
  • Glenn Ronello McIntire '25, A.M.
  • William Bridgham Nulty '10, LL.D.
  • William Gurdon Saltonstall, L.H.D.
• 1952
  
  
  • Julius Seelye Bixler, LL.D.
  • George Temple Bowdoin, A.M.
  • Alfred Brinkler, Mus.D.
  • Roland Eugene Clark '01, A.M.
  • John David Clifford, Jr. '22, LL.D.
  • Philip Greely Clifford '03, D.C.L.
  • Marcus Cook Connelly, LL.D.
  • Edward Ellsberg, Sc.D.
  • Leland Matthew Goodrich '20, Sc.D.
  • William Henry Grimes, A.M.
  • Alfred Otto Gross, Sc.D.
  • Edward Billings Ham '22, L.H.D.
  • Frederick Augustus Irving, LL.D.
  • Varaztad Havhannes Kazanjian, Sc.D.
  • Warren Kendall Lewis, Sc.D.
  • Daniel Francis Mahoney '19, A.M.
  • Bela Winslow Norton '18, A.M.
  • Charles Franklin Phillips, LL.D.
  • Edith Lansing Koon Sills, LL.D.
  • Margaret Chase Smith, LL.D.
• 1951
  
  
  • Arthur Harrison Cole '11, Sc.D.
  • Paul Howard Douglas '13, LL.D.
  • Orren Chalmer Hormell, D.C.L.
  • William Leroy King, D.C.L.
  • Asa Smallidge Knowles '30, LL.D.
  • Dorothy Hayes-Stickney Lindsay, A.M.
  • Howard Lindsay, A.M.
  • Harry Lane Palmer '04, A.M.
  • James Kellum Smith, L.H.D.
  • Willard Gordon Wyman '20, A.M.
• 1950
  
  
  • Edwin John Beinecke, L.H.D.
  • Adriel Ulmer Bird '16, A.M.
  • Charles Austin Cary '10, A.M.
  • Joseph Cony MacDonald '15, D.D.
  • Edward Folsom Merrill '03, LL.D.
  • Philip Mason Palmer '00, L.H.D.
  • Arthur Vanderbilt, LL.D.
  • Elwyn Brooks White, Litt.D.
  
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• 1949
  
  
  • Boyd Wheeler Bartlett '17, Sc.D.
  • Emyr Estyn Evans, Sc.D.
  • Samuel Lincoln Forsaith, A.M.
  • Robert Hammond Haynes '19, A.M.
  • James Rhyne Killian, Jr., LL.D.
  • Harold Hale Murchie, LL.D.
  • Marie Peary Stafford, A.M.
• 1948
  
  
  • Edward Farrington Abbott '03, A.M.
  • Robert Greenhalgh Albion '18, Litt.D.
  • Christian Archibald Herter, LL.D.
  • Robert Burton House, LL.D.
  • Hilda Libby Ives, D.D.
  • Ambrose Lansing, L.H.D.
  • Maxwell Davenport Taylor, LL.D.
• 1947
  
  
  • Frederick William Anthoensen, A.M.
  • William Hodding Carter '27, Litt.D.
  • Gano Dunn, LL.D.
  • John Ford, A.M.
  • Robert Hale '10, LL.D.
  • Arthur Harold Ham '08, A.M.
  • Arthur Andrew Hauck, LL.D.
  • James Edward Rhodes, II '97, A.M.
  • Cadwallader Lincoln Washburn, L.H.D.
• 1946
  
  
  • Albert Trowbridge Gould '08, LL.D.
  • Alaric Weston Haskell, Sc.D.
  • Horace Augustine Hildreth '25, LL.D.
  • Everett Parker Pope '41, A.M.
  • Frederic Erle Thornlay Tillotson, Mus.D.
  • Walter Vinton Wentworth '86, Sc.D.
• 1945
  
  
  • Herbert John Fleure, Sc.D.
  • William Tudor Gardiner, LL.D.
  • Roscoe Henderson Hupper '07, LL.D.
  • Ernest Joseph King, Sc.D.
  • Oliver Leland Loring, D.D.
  • Newell Convers Wyeth, A.M.
• 1944
  
  
  • John Clement Alderman, M.S.
  • James Phinney Baxter III, LL.D.
  • Charles Theodore Burnett, L.H.D.
  • Arthur Chapman '94, LL.D.
  • Henry Sloane Coffin, D.D.
  • Edward William Eames, L.H.D.
  • Roscoe James Ham, L.H.D.
  • Ernest Martin Hopkins, LL.D.
  • Lucien Percy Libby '99, A.M.
  • Wallace Copeland Philoon '05, M.S.
  • Cornelius Packard Rhoads '20, Sc.D.
  • Francis Bowes Sayre, LL.D.
  • Sumner Sewall, LL.D.
  • Harlan Fiske Stone, LL.D.
  • William Widgery Thomas '94, A.M.
  • Earle Spaulding Thompson '14, A.M.
  • Mark Van Doren, Litt.D.
  • Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, LL.D.
  • Yung-Ching Yang, L.H.D.
• 1943
  
  
  • Frederick Edward Hasler, A.M.
  • Jean Hersholt, A.M
  • Guy Whitman Leadbetter '16, Sc.D.
  • Sturgis Elleno Leavitt '08, Litt.D.
  • Paul Nixon, L.H.D.
  • Clement Franklin Robinson '03, A.M.
• 1942
  
  
  • Wallace Witmer Anderson, D.D.
  • Ralph Owen Brewster '09, LL.D.
  • Royal Cortissoz, L.H.D.
  • Archibald Joseph Cronin, Litt.D.
  • Joseph Blake Drummond '07, Sc.D.
  • George Edwin Fogg, '02, A.M.
  • Harrison King McCann '02, A.M.
  • Roscoe Parke McClave, M.S.
  • Robert Porter Patterson, LL.D.
  • Evelina Pierce, A.M.
• 1941
  
  
  • Ralph Lester Barrett '16, Sc.D.
  • George Ernest Beal '16, A.M.
  • Wingate Franklin Cram, A.M.
  • Murray Snell Danforth '01, Sc.D.
  • Robert Ignatius Gannon, LL.D.
  • Harry Oakes '96, LL.D.
  • Sumner Tucker Pike '13, LL.D.
  • Robie Reed Stevens '06, A.M.
  • Wendell Lewis Willkie, LL.D.
• 1940
  
  
  • John Russell Bass '00, A.M.
  • William Stark Newell, M.S.
  • Joseph Thomas Reisler, A.M.
  • Carl Merrill Robinson '08, Sc.D.
  • Leverett Saltonstall, LL.D.
  • Alfred Gilmore Morton Soule '03, A.M.
  • Edgar Curtis Taylor '20, L.H.D.
  
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• 1939
  
  
  • George William Burpee '04, Sc.D.
  • Elmer Howard Carleton '93, Sc.D.
  • Roy Anderson Foulke '19, A.M.
  • Frederick Mayer Meek, D.D.
  • Hoyt Augustus Moore '95, LL.D.
  • William Stockdale Nutter, A.M.
  • Edward Warren Wheeler '98, LL.D.
• 1938
  
  
  • Alexander Bower, A.M.
  • John Fessenden Dana '98, LL.D.
  • George Palmer Hyde '08, A.M.
  • Harry Clifford Knight '98, Sc.D.
  • Wilmot Brookings Mitchell '90, L.H.D.
  • William John Norton '05, Sc.D.
  • Kenneth Roberts, Litt.D.
  • Frank Herbert Swan '98, LL.D.
• 1937
  
  
  • Charles Francis Adams, LL.D.
  • Herbert Clifford Francis Bell, Litt.D.
  • Van Wyck Brooks, Litt.D.
  • Harold Hitz Burton '09, LL.D.
  • Charles Wesley Hawkesworth '06, A.M.
  • Frederick Harold Stinchfield, LL.D.
• 1936
  
  
  • Frank Learoyd Boyden, L.H.D.
  • Ripley Lyman Dana '01, LL.D.
  • Elroy Osborne LaCasce '14, A.M.
  • Robert DeVore Leigh '14, LL.D.
  • Fred Norris Robinson, Litt.D.
• 1935
  
  
  • Clyde Leroy Deming '10, Sc.D.
  • Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, Litt.D.
  • William Converse Kendall '85, Sc.D.
  • Hugh Dean McLellan, LL.D.
  • Earle Bryant Perkins '23, M.S.
  • David Richard Porter '06, L.H.D.
  • George Bowman Sears '90, A.M.
  • Anna Elizabeth Smith, A.M.
  • Frank Gifford Tallman, A.M.
• 1934
  
  
  • Robert Campbell '16, D.D.
  • Benjamin Freeman Kingsbury, Sc.D.
  • Austin Harbutt MacCormick '15, Sc.D.
  • Kenneth Charles Morton Sills '01, LL.D.
  • Leonard Percy DeWolfe Tilley, LL.D.
  • Charles Cutler Torrey '84, Litt.D.
  • Harry Trust '16, D.D.
• 1933
  
  
  • Mary Ellen Chase, Litt.D.
  • Frederick William Pickard '94, LL.D.
  • Katharine Curtis Pierce, A.M.
  • John Charles Schroeder, D.D.
  • Sir Francis James Wylie, L.H.D.
• 1932
  
  
  • Irving Babbitt, L.H.D.
  • Sterling Fessenden '96, LL.D.
  • Jefferson Butler Fletcher, Litt.D.
  • James Edward Freeman, D.D.
  • Charles Thornton Libby, A.M.
  • Charles Stuart Fessenden Lincoln '91, M.S.
  • John Abel Lord, M.S.
  • Maurice Roy Ridley, L.H.D.
  • Oliver Dana Sewall '87, D.D.
  • George Rowland Walker '02, A.M.
• 1931
  
  
  • Harold Lee Berry '01, A.M.
  • Isaiah Bowman, Sc.D.
  • Melvin Thomas Copeland '06, Sc.D.
  • Margaret Deland, Litt.D.
  • Frederick Hale, LL.D.
  • Dwight Whitney Morrow, LL.D.
  • Herbert Thompson Powers '91, A.M.
  • Earl Baldwin Smith '11, L.H.D.
  • Herbert Lindsey Swett '01, A.M.
  • Mortimer Warren '96, Sc.D.
• 1930
  
  
  • Thompson Eldridge Ashby, D.D.
  • Henry Smith Chapman '91, A.M.
  • Robert Peter Tristram Coffin '15, Litt.D.
  • Samuel Trask Dana '04, Sc.D.
  • Frank George Farrington '94, LL.D.
  • William Robinson Pattangall, LL.D.
  • Leonard Augustus Pierce '05, A.M.
  
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• 1929
  
  
  • Benjamin Brewster, D.D.
  • Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, LL.D.
  • Charles Taylor Hawes '76, LL.D.
  • Benjamin Franklin Hayden '02, M.S.
  • William Edward Lunt '04, L.H.D.
  • James Flack Norris, Sc.D.
  • William Veazie Pratt, LL.D.
  • Edward Roland Stearns '89, D.D.
  • Gerald Gardner Wilder '04, A.M.
• 1928
  
  
  • George Foster Cary '88, A.M.
  • William Robert Crowley '08, A.M.
  • Henry Bronson Dewing, L.H.D.
  • Augustus Freedom Moulton '73, LL.D.
  • Edward Abner Thompson '91, A.M.
  • Edward Hames Wass, Mus.D.
  • Wallace Humphrey White '99, LL.D.
• 1927
  
  
  • George Edward Carmichael '97, A.M.
  • Archer Parris Cram '99, A.M.
  • Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, LL.D.
  • John Henry Halford '07, A.M.
  • Joseph William Hewitt '97, L.H.D.
  • George Walter Hinckley, D.D.
  • Wallace Edward Mason '82, A.M.
  • Scott Wilson, LL.D.
  • William Ellery Wing '02, A.M.
• 1926
  
  
  • Philip Dana '96, A.M.
  • Robert Frost, Litt.D.
  • Thomas Littlefield Marble '98, LL.D.
  • Henry Hill Pierce '96, LL.D.
  • William Emerson Preble '98, Sc.D.
  • Guy Hayden Sturgis '98, LL.D.
  • Edward Perry Warren, L.H.D.
• 1925
  
  
  • Wallace Buttrick, LL.D.
  • George Roy Elliott, Litt.D.
  • Edmond Esteve, Litt.D.
  • David Gray, Litt.D.
  • David Jayne Hill, LL.D.
  • Walter Reid Hunt '90, D.D.
  • Eugene Robert Kelley '02, Sc.D.
  • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, A.M.
  • Alice Mary Longfellow, A.M.
  • John Clair Minot '96, Litt.D.
  • Edwin Arlington Robinson, Litt.D.
  • Charles Wilbert Snow '07, A.M.
• 1924
  
  
  • Arthur Philip Fairfield '99, A.M.
  • Thomas Harrison Riley '80, A.M.
  • Alpheus Sanford '76, A.M.
  • Oliver Patterson Watts '89, Sc.D.
  • Frank Nathaniel Whittier '85, Sc.D.
• 1923
  
  
  • John Albert Cone, A.M.
  • William Mitchell Kendall, L.H.D.
  • John Andrew Peters '85, LL.D.
  • Daniel Arthur Robinson '73, Sc.D.
  • Arthur Glenwood Staples '82, Litt.D.
  • Frederick Clement Stevens '81, LL.D.
  • Edward Warren Wheeler '98, A.M.
  • Frederick Arthur Wilson '73, D.D.
• 1922
  
  
  • Lawrence Fraser Abbott, Litt.D.
  • Austin Cary '87, Sc.D.
  • John Eliphaz Chapman '77, A.M.
  • Charles Albert Coffin, LL.D.
  • Louis Arthur Coolidge, A.M.
  • John Frederick Eliot '73, Ed.D.
  • Daniel Irving Gross '02, D.D.
  • William Albion Moody '82, Sc.D.
• 1921
  
  
  • Heloise Edwina Hersey, A.M.
  • Preston Kyes '96, Sc.D.
  • Wilbert Grant Mallett '91, A.M.
  • Don Carlos Seitz, Litt.D.
  • Newman Smyth '63, D.D.
  • Addison Sanford Thayer, Sc.D.
  • Henry Kirke White '74, L.H.D.
• 1920
  
  
  • Robert Abram Bartlett, A.M.
  • Charles Townsend Copeland, Litt.D.
  • Edgar Millard Cousins '77, D.D.
  • Chester Burge Emerson '04, D.D.
  • Ben Foster, A.M.
  • Charles Hugh McLellan, M.S.
  
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• 1919
  
  
  • William Dunning Ireland '16, A.M.
  • Albert Jones Lord '94, D.D.
  • Frank Andrew Munsey, Litt.D.
  • Thomas Lewis Pierce '98, A.M.
  • Harold Marsh Sewall, A.M.
  • Sherman Nelson Shumway '17, A.M.
  • Freelan Oscar Stanley '77, A.M.
  • Arthur Glenwood Staples '82, A.M.
  • George William Tillson '77, Sc.D.
• 1918
  
  
  • Leslie Colby Cornish, LL.D.
  • Henry Pomeroy Davison, LL.D.
  • Charles Clifford Hutchins '83, Sc.D.
  • Ashley Day Leavitt, D.D.
  • Donald Baxter MacMillan '98, Sc.D.
  • Winford Henry Smith '99, Sc.D.
  
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