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President Pusey To Receive Two Special Degrees

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Tufts University and the University of Pennsylvania announced yesterday that they will award President Pusey honorary degrees.

Tufts will bestow on him an honorary doctor of laws degree this Thursday. Fourteen others, including five college or university presidents, will be honored with President Pusey.

President Pusey's other degree will be conferred by Pennsylvania on Jan. 14, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, that institution's founder. At the Founder's Day ceremony four other educators will be so honored: A. Whitney Griswold of Yale, Alvin D. Chandler of William and Mary, Thomas M. Knox of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and A. H. Smith, vice chancellor of Oxford University.

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