Speculation Mounts On Candidates For Honoraries

Speculation continues to mount today that Jean Mayer, former master of Dudley House and now president of Tufts, will receive an honorary degree tomorrow. Informed sources aren't talking, however.

Doris Kearns Goodwin?

Local flunkies are betting on Seiji Ozawa, the Boston Symphony's youthful conductor, for an honorary parchment.

Joe Rudi?

The Mediterranean may provide a couple of likely candidates for honoraries. Look for George Savides, a professor of history at the University of Salonika, or Greek Minister Trypanis, at the Tercentenary Theater podium.

Lyman Butterfield?

Of course, David Riesman '31, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, and John H. Finley '25, Senior Professor, will cop degrees. Albert Nickerson, retiring Corporation member, will gain one too.

Jack Barnaby?

No doubt, a couple of Watergate-tainted businessmen will receive honoraries now that the Watergate taint has worn off a bit.

Edo Marion, Al Gordon?

Another possibility is the Soviet novelist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn was on the Board of Overseers's list of honorary degree recipients two years ago, but could not get to the United States to accept it.

John Hope Franklin?

The list of people who won't receive honoraries grows longer by the minute. There doesn't seem to be any reason to suspect that departing administrators Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, or Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, will garner honoraries.

Elizabeth Holtzman?

Neither Frank Rizzo nor John Havlicek should be up for awards this year.

Walter Rothschild?

Gossip about the honorary degree holders--their names are kept secret until they take the stage at Commencement--has been at its usual high level this year.