Perhaps the most distinguishable thing the university and colleges could do was to recognize Frost for his artistic work, and that they did for he was conferred with forty-four honorary degrees, despite not being conferred with an academic degree. In addition to the awards, the United States Senate also paid him tribute in 1950 as well as the American Academy of Poets tribute in 1950. In 1949, he was appointed Saimpson Lecturer for life by the Amherst College and the Library of Congress made him poetry consultant. Perhaps the best reward that has been awarded to him is that his entire life and his works are used as manuscripts in the literature world and is forever etched in the annals of history.