Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred fifteen Radcliffe Seniors, half of them with Honors will receive Bachelor Degrees at Commencement in the Radcliffe Yard at 11 a.m. Graduate degrees to 149 candidates and 63 certificates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration will also be awarded...
Strange as it may seem, Harvard has even awarded honorary Bachelor's degrees--but these are probably the rarest of the rare honors. Only five such awards were ever made, and the most recent was given in 1834. Honorary B.A.'s have bowed to the times, for recognition by the College merits more than the humble Bachelor's degree...
...lived on at Laeken palace, joined his bachelor son at meals and on the golf course, complained bitterly of the ingratitude of his subjects in forcing him from the throne. He surrounded Baudouin with advisers who were usually at odds with government policy, interfered with affairs in the Belgian Congo,* and even flew to Africa to make sure that his unprogressive Governor General was kept in office. Royal speeches by King Baudouin were tape-recorded and put on the air with scant notice to Socialist Premier Gaston Eyskens or the Cabinet...
...Baudouin's first state visit to a foreign country since he became King on the abdication of his father, Leopold III, in 1951. A shy, serious bachelor who hates pomp and loves sport (golf, billiards, swimming, skiing, motorcycling), the King said in good English that he came from "a country old enough to have been spoken of proudly by Julius Caesar,"* called America the "land of youth," drew according nods from Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, 76, and Rhode Island...
Seniors receiving bachelor's degrees in June are required to leave addresses at 3 University Hall if they wish their diplomas mailed to them, according to Sargent Kennedy, Registrar of Harvard College. A fee of $1 for registered mailing charges will be collected from students indicating that they prefer to receive their diplomas by mail...