| YEAR | NAME | DEGREE |
| 1949 | CURTIS, Edward Peck | Doctor of Laws |
| 1949 | FAILLS, Gioacchino | Doctor of Science |
| 1949 | HAMILTON, Edith | Doctor of Letters |
| 1949 | MASSOLENI, Ettore | Doctor of Music |
| 1949 | SAYRE, Francis Bowes | Doctor of Laws |
| 1949 | SLICHTER, Sumner Huber | Doctor of Laws |
| 1948 | ALESSANDRO, Victor | Doctor of Music |
| 1948 | BURGESS, Warran Ramrolph | Doctor of Laws |
| 1948 | CASE, Everett Needham | Doctor of Laws |
| 1948 | DuBois, Eugene Floyd | Doctor of Science |
| 1948 | ELIOT, Martha May | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1948 | SCHLESINGER, Aurthur Meier | Doctor of Laws |
| 1947 | MAASS, Otto | Doctor of Science |
| 1947 | McCLINTOCK, Barbara | Doctor of Science |
| 1947 | MOORE, Douglas Stuart | Doctor of Music |
| 1947 | PEARSON, Lester Bowles | Doctor of Laws |
| 1947 | VOEGTLIN, Carl | Doctor of Science |
| 1946 | CUTLER, Elliot Carr | Doctor of Science |
| 1946 | HARRIS, Roy Ellsworth | Doctor of Music |
| 1946 | LEWIS, Wilmarth Sheldon | Doctor of Letters |
| 1946 | MEITNER, Lise | Doctor of Science |
| 1946 | PRENTIS, Henning Webb Jr. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1946 | RICKEY, Branch | Doctor of Laws |
| 1946 | STEINHAUSEN, Meta Behn | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1945 | BOWEN, Catherine Drinker | Doctor of Letters |
| 1945 | BURRITT, Bailey Barton | Doctor of Laws |
| 1945 | FOLSOM, Marion Bayard | Doctor of Laws |
| 1945 | JOHNSON, Alfred LeRoy | Doctor of Science |
| 1945 | MARQUARND, John Philips | Doctor of Letters |
| 1945 | MINER, Edward G. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1945 | WOLFERS, Arnold | Doctor of Laws |
| 1944 | BARKER, Joseph Warren | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1944 | CORNER, George Washington | Doctor of Science |
| 1944 | HOFFMAN, Paul Gray | Doctor of Laws |
| 1944 | PORTER, Quincy | Doctor of Music |
| 1943 | ADAMS, Robert | Doctor of Science |
| 1943 | BAYNE-JONES, Stanhope | Doctor of Science |
| 1943 | DEAN, Vera Micheles | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1943 | DeKIEWIET, Cornelis Willem | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1943 | FREEMAN, Douglas Southall | Doctor of Letters |
| 1943 | KAELBER, William G. | Master of Humane Letters |
| 1943 | KENNY, Elizabeth | Doctor of Science |
| 1942 | HU, Shih | Doctor of Laws |
| 1942 | HUTCHESON, Emest | Doctor of Music |
| 1942 | LYDENBERG, Harry Miller | Doctor of Letters |
| 1942 | RUSSELL, Fredrick Fuller | Doctor of Science |
| 1942 | SKINNER, Cornelia Otis | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1942 | WADSWORTH, James Wolcott | Doctor of Laws |
| 1942 | WRIGHT, Sewall | Doctor of Science |
| 1941 | CARVER, George Washington | Doctor of Science |
| 1941 | CHURCHILL, Winston L.S. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 | CURIE, Eve | Doctor of Letters |
| 1941 | DUBOS, Rene Jules | Doctor of Science |
| 1941 | GANNETT, Mary Thorn Lewis | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1941 | LONGCOPE, Warfield Theobald | Doctor of Science |
| 1941 | PATTERSON, Robert Porter | Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 | STOCK, Frederick August | Doctor of Music |
| 1940 | BENET, Stephen Vincent | Doctor of Letters |
| 1940 | BRECKINRIDGE, Mary | Doctor of Laws |
| 1940 | GASSER, Herbert Spencer | Doctor of Science |
| 1940 | KOUSSEVITSKY, Serge | Doctor of Music |
| 1940 | PROCOPE, Hjalmar | Doctor of Laws |
| 1940 | RICHTER, Gisela M.A. | Doctor of Fine Arts |