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mer in China but I don't see how we can afford it unless I 

 could substitute there. 



Headship of Cincinnati's university changed hands and 

 Frederick C Hicks (fifty-eight, for long years a favorite of 

 the students in the classical half of Cincinnati's university, an 

 economist with understanding heart) came in. He continued 

 Wherry in his place. It was the kind of "administrative" 

 appointment that he loved — it had to do with policy and not 

 bookkeeping — and so Wherry wrote his faculty colleagues 

 (August 25, 1921): 



Upon whom do you think we should confer honorary degrees 

 at our coming centennial celebration? They should be medical 

 men or men working in the related sciences. If you have a name 

 to suggest, indicate in full the reasons therefor. 



Almost no nominations were made. Wherry put forward 

 a list all his own. On November 6, 1 92 1 , the University's presi- 

 dent spoke in the great hall of Cincinnati's new medical school, 

 "by virtue of the power vested" in him. For "eminent scholar- 

 ship and public service," the title of doctor honoris causa to 

 the following: 



Charles Cassedy Bass (forty-five, first to grow malaria in a 

 test tube) ; Mary Muhlenberg Emery (for largest faith in 

 Cincinnati's medical future) ; Ross Granville Harrison (fifty, 

 first to grow animal tissues in a test tube) ; Ludvig Hektoen 

 (fifty-seven, for proving science as well as wheat to come out 

 of the West) ; Christian R Holmes, posthumously (sixty- 

 three, for being Cincinnati's second Daniel Drake) ; Edwin 

 Oakes Jordan (fifty- four, for making bacteriology function 

 in sanitation) ; Dean Dewitt Lewis (forty-six, for insisting 

 that biological principles must be guide to surgery) ; Robert 

 Williamson Lovett (sixty-one, for utilizing physiological law 

 in the correction of deformity) ; Elmer Verner McCollum 

 (forty-one, for proving that men may starve in the midst of 

 plenty) ; William Snow Miller (sixty- two, for writing apoc- 

 ryphally on the lung) ; Frederick C Novy (fifty-six, for 

 biology beyond its systematics) ; John Barton Payne (sixty- 

 five, for being more than clerk in U S's Interior department) ; 

 Joseph Ransohoff (sixty-seven, for knowing not only what 

 but how to say the medical) ; Edward Carl Rosenow (forty- 



