Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viands, wine, cigars and flowers had been ordered. Their Britannic Majesties were prepared to receive in splendor last week a state visit from President Doumergue and Premier Briand of France. M. Doumergue's valet pondered again the advisability of a corset. Bachelor Briand submitted to a deft clipping of his (as usual) too exuberant mop of hair. All was in readiness...
Seniers in the College, students in the various graduate schools and the recipients of honorary degrees were all included in the list of diplomas. 568 degrees went to undergraduates in the College, 418 receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts; while 89 took the Bachelor of Science degree. A higher percentage of these than ever before received the degree with distinction, 141 taking the Arts degree with honors, and 31 receiving Bachelor of Science diplomas with the coveted Latin words of praise...
...Author was born to her subject, the daughter of a Worcester, Mass., judge. Like Novelist Anne Parrish (The Perennial Bachelor), she thumbed Godey Books in her nursery. She traveled in Europe and roamed as far as the University of Wisconsin for her education. During the War she farmeretted in Virginia. But Boston reclaimed her as a literary lady in the Houghton, Mifflin Co., where warm friends now thank fortune that her maiden novel is no hail-and-farewell. She married Albert Hoskins of Philadelphia last January, but with no Lancian translation of hymen vincit omnia. On the contrary, Husband Hoskins...
...Bachelor's Degree Demanded...
...account of this difficulty that the School tried the experiment, of requiring the Bachelor's degree for entrance. Most schools of architecture admit men from high school, giving them a training in architecture with a dash of cultural background, and prepare them for the profession in four to five years. The Faculty of Architecture at Harvard is determined that, if a college education, with the breadth that it brings, is a good thing for a lawyer, for a doctor, or for a business man, it is an even better-thing for an architect. Probably no profession requires greater breadth...