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...practice of Augustus Caesar, when preparing to take over some new bloc of power, to deliver a eulogy on the virtues of the republic and announce his deep solicitude for the liberties and happiness of the people. How faithfully this fine precedent has been emulated in the modern world by dictators and bureaucrats alike...
...Federal Radio Commission, and added Paul Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case (onetime Governor of Rhode Island), Irvin Stuart (State Department radio expert). George Henry Payne (journalist). Hampson Gary (Wilson's Minister to Switzerland). The President also appointed the Securities & Exchange Commission, three labor boards and picked William Augustus Ayres, longtime Democratic Representative from Wichita, Kans. to succeed James M. Landis on the Federal Trade Commission...
Summa Cum Laude degrees were awarded to the following 16 men: Meyer Howard Abrams, Long Branch, New Jersey; Edward Augustus Ackerman, Spokane, Washington; Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Donald David Cody, Hartford, Connecticut; Robert Calhoun Creel, Cambridge; Oscar Hirsh Davis, Mount Vernon, New York; Edward Settle Godfrey, 3rd, Albany, New York; Richard Murphey Goodwin, Newcastle, Indiana; Gove Griffith Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C.; Robert Kaplan, Cambridge; Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, Roslindale; John Arthur Martin, Bangor, Maine; John Barzillai Rackliffe, Newton; John Thomas Sapieuze, Irvington, New Jersey; John William Walsh, Jr., Quincy...
...Edward Augustus Ackerman '34, of Spokane, Wash, has been awarded the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, traditionally given to the first scholar of the Senior Class. Ackerman entered from Coeur d'Alene High School, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He will receive the degree summa cum laude in geology. He had a straight A record throughout college. He has held the Jacob Wendell Scholarship and the Palfrey Exhibition. He was on the University Fencing Team and has taken part in debating. The fellowship will enable him to travel abroad for a year...
Thanks to his sagacity and his apparent incompetence, Claudius came unscathed through the ruthless realpolitik of Augustus' reign, the tyrannies of Tiberius', the craziness of Caligula's. A Roman of the old school, nostalgic for the Republic, he saw that Rome was headed in a showier direction. His stoicism kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy...