Vice President, Georgetown University
1938
Citation:
The Reverend Edmund Walsh, Priest of the Society of Jesus, scholastic son of Boston College, Georgetown University, and of the Universities of London, Dublin and Innsbruck; Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Letters of Georgetown University and now its Vice President; educator, publicist, diplomat; founder and organizer of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, whose alumni in serving their country encircle the globe; who as Director General of the papal Relief Mission to the Soviet Union, and in subsequent international negotiations in the Near East, in Iraq, and in Mexico, has handled difficult and delicate world problems with firmness, tact and diplomacy, meriting thereby decorations and honors from various foreign nations; who in particular, by fifteen years of lecturing and writing, has awakened a too tolerant world to the dangers of atheistic communism, and effectively defended the ideals and best traditions of democratic government, Is recommended for the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, and to be placed on the roll of those whom the University has chosen for its academic honors. Commencement, University of Detroit, Jun 7, 1938.