91.  Author or editor of 16 books and recipient of 60 honorary degrees, Moynihan's speeches can be tough to follow.

92.  In 1988 they received honorary degrees together at McGill, and in 1994 at the University of Toronto.

93.  In addition to his two Pulitzer Prizes, he was awarded nearly 50 honorary degrees.

94.  In addition to its regular degrees, Columbia granted seven honorary doctoral degrees, including one in music to the musician and composer Wynton Marsalis.

95.  In 1999 he received an honorary degree from Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist Christian institution that once prohibited interracial dating.

96.  In Evian the cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich also received an honorary doctoral degree from the school.

97.  In her long career as a college president, Delores E. Cross has received nine honorary degrees, including some from colleges with Catholic affiliations.

98.  In New York an honorary doctoral degree was awarded to Clark Terry, the jazz musician.

99.  In the same spirit, she also refused honorary degrees.

100.  Jackson was regarded as a boor by the Brahmins of Boston, who were apoplectic when Harvard bestowed an honorary degree on him.