New Doctoral Degree Awarded to MacLeish

For his "poetic interpretations of human destiny," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, yesterday received an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

MacLeish "has touched the lives of millions with beauty and poetic truth," the citation accompanying the degree said. "In his public career he has exemplified that same high sense of civic responsibility and human dignity which has marked his writing. As librarian of our national Library of Congress, as leader in the creation of UNESCO, he has exercised a profound influence on the intellectual life of our time."