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...impending shellacking. But sweet are the uses of adversity, and some clever alumnus, or someone else in power turned on the heat, and Miss Bette Davis, of Hollywood fame, rose magnificently to the occasion. Casting modesty, prudery, and other such doubtful virtues to the winds, she offered to bestow a resounding kiss in her best cinema manner upon anyone who should score for dear old Loomis. The boys rose to the occasion too. In fact they couldn't be kept down, and in a whirlwind afternoon routed the amazed Deerfield behemoths by some such score...
...Having commended in our prayers the soul of this most beloved man to the clemencies of God, we implore heaven to grant true peace to the Catholic nation of Austria and we bestow upon it and upon you the Apostolic blessing in the fullness of our good will...
...Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture...
When Commencement season arrived last year university trustees with honorary degrees to pass around turned instinctively to the new President's Cabinet. They were stopped at the top because Secretary of State Hull was away at the London Economic Conference and universities rarely bestow their kudos in absentia. So Syracuse led off by making Secretary of the Treasury Woodin a Doctor of Music. Secretary of War Dern got an LL. D. from Pennsylvania Military College. Postmaster General Farley became, by grace of the University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington & Jefferson gave Secretary of the Interior...
...enjoy as much or as little tutorial effort as he might choose. At the end of four, five, or perhaps six years he would take a special set of divisional examinations, and receive the regular Master's degree or whatever honor the President and Fellows see fit to bestow. No other distinctions need separate him from the mass of Harvard, from those training for professions, working their way through college, or specializing in extra-curricular activities, who would still receive a sound schooling under the aegis of concentration and distribution. A framework of this sort, with different curricular requirements...