Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nadav Safran received the Chase Award for his doctoral dissertation, "Modern Egypt in Search of an Ideology;" the Sumner Award goes to Stafford G.W. Johnston 7G for "The Primacy of Justice: A Study of Liberalism and its Role in World Politics;" and the Toppan Prize to Paul E. Sigmund, Jr. 6G for "Hierarchy and Consent: The Political Theory of Nicholas of Cusa...
Another major change in the honorary degrees lies in the grade of award accorded. Once the master's degree--the M.A.--was given more often than the doctorate, and until the Revolutionary War, honorary M.A.'s outnumbered any of the types of degrees. On Thursday morning, however, the newly-recognized doctors will far outnumber those receiving an M.A. diploma...
Hanfstaengl's visit to the University at that time was charged with controversy following a CRIMSON editorial entitled "Render Unto Caesar," suggesting that, since "he has risen to distinguished station," it would be appropriate to award him an honorary degree...
Other citations were given to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Accepted by Baron Edgar Douglas Adrian, master of Trinity College, the award to Cambridge declared, "During the last hundred years, Cambridge has veered toward science. Good fortune this for the harsh world of today...
Just last Wednesday, the President bestowed on Dulles the nation's highest award to civilians, the Medal of Freedom. Only 13 persons have received this award since it was created in 1946. Dulles was too ill for Eisenhower to present the medal in person...