Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune with ancient tradition Lord Hugh was installed last week in the presence of the genial and patriarchal Dean of Windsor representing King Edward VIII, Eton's Fellows, scholarly Eton Headmaster Claude Aurelius ('The Emperor") Elliott, and 1,100 top-hatted Etonians. Up to the outer doors of School Yard walked Lord Hugh with stately, processional steps. His three knocks on the great oak door significantly implied that the Fellows of Eton need not admit the King's nominee unless they wanted to. The Fellows, though, had decided that they wanted Lord Hugh, admitted him. Crossing School...
...choosing a Scot, like the late great physicist Baron Kelvin or Gladstone's successor as Prime Minister, the late Earl of Rosebery, to honor with the title of Chancellor. But Lord Rectors are only disciplinary officials, Chancellors merely figureheads. The real ruler of this great and ancient University is the Principal...
...trustees and a five-man advisory board, heavily Harvard, predominantly Bostonian. Leading the board's list is Charles Francis Adams, great-great-great-grandson of the second President of the U. S.. Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Navy and reputedly the richest member of his ancient family. Another is Roger Amory. the philosophical president of Consolidated Investment Trust. He lists his hobbies as books, walks and lying in the sun. wrote for his 25th Harvard Class (1910) Book: "I believe in the consanguinity and spiritual relationship of potentate and mollusk and in the infiniteness...
Another technician mentioned by Mr. Greene is Graham Carey '14 who designed the official Tercentenary Medal. The design follows very closely upon the usage of the seventeenth century. Further, old methods of die-cutting were used by the metal founders, so that the finished product is in a fitting ancient style...
...wards have been painted and made less forbidding. Comfortable chairs, and modern tables which make it possible to read in bed without holding the book, have been installed in all the private rooms. New light fixtures were added last year, and gradually Dr. Bock hopes to make the ancient building more attractive...