An Honorary Degree for Sacco and Vanzetti?

I am reading Stephen Edward Epler's book Honorary Degrees, published in 1943. Epler wrote the book after finishing his doctorate at Teachers College; he was working at Southern Oregon College of Education when he wrote it. Epler went on to found Portland State University.

The book offers a window into the history of American colleges, and there is much of specialist interest, but one quotation caught my eye.

Epler points out that through the 1930s, honorary degree recipients tended to be conservatives. In that regard, he notes that in 1838 Harvard gave an honorary degree to James T. Austin, who as Massachusetts attorney general praised a lynch mob that had murdered the abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy. He adds that 100 years later, in 1938, Smith College gave honorary degrees to two of Lovejoy's descendants. Ex-president Herbert Hoover spoke at the occasion. Epler concludes this:

In 1922 Harvard gave an LL.D. to a Massachusetts attorney who soon after aided in the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti. It may be wondered if, in 2022, a college will honor descendants of these men at a celebration memorializing the struggle for freedom of speech.

Epler could not have conceived the extent to which the left would have subsequently triumphed on campus or its future opposition to freedom of speech. His prediction, though, is perspicacious. I'm surprised Harvard hasn't erected a memorial statue to Sacco and Vanzetti.