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ate him was to receive a degree
and speak at Notre Dame.
His visit prompted nostalgic
references to his role as the
“Gipper,” the late Notre Dame
football star George Gipp, in the
film in which Pat O’Brien (also
receiving a degree that day)
played legendary coach Knute
Rockne.
Presidents Jimmy Carter,
Gerald Ford and Dwight D.
Eisenhower all received degrees
from Notre Dame while in
office. President John F. Ken
nedy received the Laetare Med
al, the university’s highest honor
for a Roman Catholic.
Notre Dame’s president of 31
years, the Rev. Theodore Hes-
burgh, has worked for these
presidents on national boards.
He knows them — and they
know “Notre Dame is a highly
visible platform for Catholics in
this country,” said Richard Con
klin, Notre Dame spokesman.
Columbia University doesn’t
use degrees to obtain speakers.
Its commencement speaker al
ways is the university president.
But like Harvard, it wants de
gree recipients there for the
show. It doesn’t announce their
names until graduation day. No
show, no degree.
Degrees often go with the
honorarium and travel expenses
given the principal commence
ment speaker. Competition for
speakers can be fierce. It also
can be embarrassing when stu
dents don’t like the choice.
Smith College invited U.N.
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick
to speak and receive an honor
ary degree at its May 22 cere
monies this year. Students orga
nized CROAK — Committee
Responsible for Organizing
Against Kirkpatrick. They plan
ned a silent protest. Mrs. Kirk
patrick withdrew.
She still will receive her de
gree, the trustees decided.
Colleges and universities,
asked for their criteria for such
degrees, speak of distinguished
careers, outstanding achieve
ment, service to humanity, con
nection with the school or state.
They don’t like to speak of
money.
Someone who has contri
buted money to the school may
be honored, but “it is long after
the event” and money is not the
deciding factor, said Carleton
Whitehead of Reed College in
Portland, Ore.
Reed typifies schools that pre
fer to honor people with a tie to
the institution. Among its reci
pients has been cookbook writer
James Beard, who attended
Reed.
“I don’t want to say people
who received honorary degrees
have not been generous to the
college, but the purpose is to rec
ognize something they have
done in society,” said a Dart
mouth spokesman.
“We don’t base honorary de
grees on how much someone
contributes. We’re not playing
that game,” said Dr. Fred
Brown, executive vice-president
of Buena Vista College, Storm
Lake, Iowa.
In 1980, Fluena Vista did give
a degree to a donor-graduate —
unnamed because of a contract
between the school and the per
son. If the degree was excep
tional, so was the gift: $18 mil
lion.
President Norman Hacker-
man of Rice University said his
school won’t give honorary de
grees because “we just don’t
want to lower the requirements
for a degree.”
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