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...Ferguson, "consider outworn the system which now denies to them the right of accepting fitting honors from His Majesty the King. . . . While Canadian politicians should unquestionably still be barred from accepting such honors, there are many other Canadians who deserve and should receive what only the Sovereign can bestow. . . . I hope that the Dominion Government will soon withdraw its resolution of some years ago against the granting of patents of nobility to Canadians...
...Patriotic citizens of Vermont wanted to bestow the name of Calvin Coolidge upon some high and worthy mountain peak. Last week the nomenclature committee reported that no unnamed mountain could be found...
...while she had the honor of being the first woman in history to cook for the gentlemen in White's Club until she resigned after calling an amorous nobleman "an old woodcock in tights." King Edward lavished on her gifts which only a sovereign could bestow with propriety upon a subject. "Brooches, bracelets and things" were her portion, and the Cavendish Hotel, which she still owns. She comes to the U. S. for two reasons-partly tohelp her publishers, and partly to sell some pre-Gobelin tapestries, showing the life of Constantine the Great, which have been part...
...Ames Competition is to obtain the greatest honor the Law School has to bestow...
...that as it may have been, there was much else for the Pope to talk over with Guglielmo Marconi. The Pope, besides having been a hardy mountaineer, is a radio enthusiast. As he awaited .the inventor's approach, as he fingered the gold medal he was about to bestow, the Pope may have reflected momentarily upon just a few of the week's news items, indicative of the vast sphere which this intense, blue-eyed, light-haired Italo-Hibernian set in motion as a youth only 30 years ago. The Pope may have realized...