Word: absentia
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...administration has followed the policy of keeping mum on who receives the honorary degrees until Commencement day. A recipient has to be present at the exercises in order to receive degree. Two notable exceptions are Generals Marshall and MacArthur, both of whom were offered degrees in absentia in 1946. Marshall took his degree a the following Commencement, when he delivered an address on the Marshall Plan. MacArthur is still in line for his degree whenever he accepts the University's invitation...
...President, John, was one of the 43 (out of a class of 70) expelled just before Commencement for participation in the "Great Rebellion of 1823." Some 50 years later and 39 after John's death, the faculty backed down and granted the group their diplomas "in absentia." Primary prank of the notorious Class of 1823 was rolling cannon balls down the stairs of the tottering Yard dormitories...
...Senator in absentia in 1948, and was elected. In 1949, Grau having given way to Carlos Prío as President, Batista finally went home. Guarded by 20 soldiers, he lived at Kuquine, talking with politicos, playing canasta, and keeping in trim by working out daily on an exercise machine. There he bided his time until last month's revolt...
...Chancellor of Bristol University, Winston Churchill awarded honorary doctorates to nine "Men of Ability," including former Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps. Still not up to traveling the 30 miles of winter roads, Cripps received his degree in absentia. Following the Bristol tradition of lightsome eulogies, a university Latin professor said of Sir Stafford: "His favorite drink is water; his favorite food, a scraped carrot. While in politics he is left of the left, in matters of right and wrong he is inclined to be right . . . He is gifted with a winning voice which can make the warnings...
...nervous. Glubb Pasha's house was surrounded by half a platoon of armed legionnaires; barbed wire masked the entrance to his office; squads with Tommy guns convoyed his car. For still at large were the masterminds: Abdullah el Tel, former Arab Legion colonel (sentenced to death in absentia for the Abdullah killing), and Jerusalem's Mufti, the greatest plotter of them...