Word: arte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LL.D. in 1773. When given at the College, especially in the last century, the LL.D. covered far more than civil and canon law, as shown by John Greenleaf Whittier's recipience of this degree. The citations on the LL.D. degrees referred to "laws of nation," "divine laws," "laws of art," or other such euphemisms during this century to square the degree with the achievement of the recipient...
...years 1906 and 1907, two honorary awards were instituted which finally opened the way for recognition of artistic achievement. Established in 1906, the Doctorate of Art (Art D.) has been awarded quite frequently. The Litt. D.--Doctor of Literature--has also been utilized by the College many times since 1907. The very first Litt.D. went then to one of the most famous names on the roster of all-time Faculty greats, George Lyman Kittredge. His high degree of academic learning, belying his 47 years of age, has seldom been equalled in any honorary degree winner...
...Art Lesson. In Southfield, Mich., High School Teacher Richard Welkenbach keeps discipline by writing on the blackboard, "I'm in a bad mood today," and adding a drawing of a bullwhip...
...procedural rules, Deputies sought to revive Tunisification. In the most brilliant speech of his career, Premier Michel Debre, the man most responsible for the new constitution, stood firm against this challenge. Freely admitting that as a Senator during the Fourth Republic, he had himself been "a master of the art" of Tunisification, he added: "Yet I was wrong." He boldly pitched his argument to the widespread French anxiety, rarely expressed publicly, about what happens after President de Gaulle leaves the scene. "To guarantee the future of democracy in France," at a time when Parliament itself is discredited in the public...
Back in New Brunswick, where he grew up, Britain's peppery Lord Beaverbrook put up at Fredericton's Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, spent hours right next door in the city's Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, one of his many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday...