Universities and colleges

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws and Letters from the University of California at Berkeley, one of the stops on his presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. Others in the photo are unidentified. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

A smiling capped and gowned former President Harry S. Truman (center) stands with two unidentified men after receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Former President Harry S. Truman addresses the crowd during commencement at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

A color photo of (left to right) former President Harry S. Truman, David Noyes, and Edwin Pauley at the University of California Los Angeles.

Former President Harry S. Truman (center) receiving an honorary degree from the University of New York at Albany on his trip to New York. He is shown with a group of unidentified scholars.

An aerial photograph of Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. (See also 2001-229.) From: Records of the Chief of the Secret Service; Protection of the President

A view of the Knowles Memorial Chapel, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, where President Truman is to be awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. (See 2001-226 and 227.)

A view of the Knowles Memorial Chapel, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, where President Truman is to be awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. (See also 2001-226 and 227.)

President Harry S. Truman and Dr. Hamilton Holt (right), President of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, standing at the entrance of the Knowles Memorial Chapel. President Truman has just been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities and will be dropping a commemorative stone from his boyhood home in Grandview, Missouri, into place at the Rollins College Walk of Fame.

Former Ambassador and businessman Edwin Pauley being sworn in to the Board of Regents at the University of California.