CONANT AWARDED DEGREE AT WILLIAMS BY PHINEY BAXTER

James Phiney Baxter, President of Williams College and former Harvard professor of History, Saturday awarded President Conant a doctor of laws degree at the William two-day annual winter home coming festivities.

In bestowing the degree Baxter read the following citation: "A chemist who sought to unlock the secret of plant growth; now the leader of a more difficult and more important quest; how to advance scholarship and maintain liberty in 20th century America."

Conant was the chief speaker of the morning. Touching only minutely on his recent suggestion to limit enrollment, he said that "for purposes of intellectual endeavor change is surely essential, but here expansion may not even be desirable."