No Honorary War Degrees Until World Conflict Ends

The University will not award honorary war degrees, at least not until after the war, President Conant said in his annual report to the Board of Overseers Wednesday.

"If advanced education in this country is to continue its proper function," President Conant said, "It is important that academic degrees continue to signify the completion of a normal academic course either in college or a professional school. A special certificate will be given to all who leave college in good standing to join the armed forces, he said, but "the question of giving honorary degrees to those who have served in the Army and the Navy during the war may well be deferred, as in the last war, until the war is over."