Portrait of Yale University Honorary Degree Recipients

(Original Caption) Citations and honorary degrees awarded at Yale University's commencement exercises on June 21, were conferred by President Charles Seymour (in center of group). Receiving honorary degrees are (from left): Sewall Wright, Doctor of Science; Erwin Dain Canham, Doctor of Human Letters; Lucius DuBignon Clay, Doctor of Laws; University President Seymour; John J. McCloy, Doctor of Laws; Norman Burdett Nash, Doctor of Divinity; Payton Rous, Doctor of Science; Richard Mervin Bissell, Jr., Master of Arts; Carl Purington Rollins, Doctor of Humane Letters; Samuel Eliot Morison, Doctor of Letters; Bayard Dodge, Doctor of Laws; Aero Saarinen, Master of Arts.