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Group photograph of honorary degree recipients at Boston University commencement, 1950. They wear academic robes and pose front of a banner that reads "Boston University". James Rhyne Killian sits second from right. Original caption: "Honorary Degrees Awarded at Commencement, 1950 Seated left to right: Dewey David Stone, Doctor of Humanities; Mary Hinckley Dearing, Doctor of Humanities; Earl James McGrath, Doctor of Science in Education; President Daniel L. Marsh; Ida Maud Cannon, Doctor of Science; James R. Killian, Jr., Doctor of Laws; Charles Irving Carpenter, Doctor of Sacred Theology; standing left to right: Edwin Clifford Johnson, Doctor of Commercial Science; Richard Campbell Raines, Doctor of Sacred Theology; Nathaniel Howell Furman, Doctor of Science; William Wilcox Edel, Doctor of Humanities; William Francis Davis, Jr., Doctor of Laws; and Robert William Upton, Doctor of Laws."