The darling of Sesame Street, Kermit the Frog was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Amphibious Letters on May 19, 1996 from Southampton College, New York, where he also gave a commencement speech. It is incredible to think that President Obama was famously snubbed by Arizona State University for an honorary degree yet Kermit was deemed worthy by Southampton. Two years earlier Kermit addressed 1,000 students at the Oxford Union and is the only amphibian to have ever done so. He opened with: "The responsibility of representing an entire species rests on my shoulders." He spoke on the importance of protecting the environment, encouraged the students to "go green" and warned the female students not to kiss frogs, saying the UK already had enough princes.