Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States, received the honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Yeshiva University today. Following the presentation of the degree by Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of the university, and a response by the Chief Justice, a cornerstone ceremony for the university’s new $3,000,000 classroom-administration building, was held.
Chief Justice Warren is the second Chief Justice of the United States to become a member of the honorary alumni of Yeshiva University. In 1944, the late Harlan Fiske Stone was awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the inauguration of Dr. Belkin as the second president of Yeshiva.
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