Includes speeches from various cultural figures who were receiving honours from the University: Eric Ambler; Cleveland Amory; Hans Habe; Arthur Fiedler; Martha Gellhorn; Charles Angoff; Francis Van Wyck Mason; Fletcher Knebel; [Alexander] Alec Waugh; Maxwell Geismar; Mary Borden (Mary, Lady Spears, who appears 1 hour 21 minutes in, speaking over the phone) on her gratitude to the University, pleasure that her manuscripts were kept there, and her feelings of being an exile from the United States; General Matthew B Ridgway; [William] Claude Rains.