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...College of Cardinals. Of this secret consistory, convoked a month ago, the Pope asked ratification of his choice of the two monsignori as new Princes of the Church. When assent was silently and swiftly given, Vatican functionaries entered the anteroom, informed the cardinals-elect that the Holy Father would bestow red hats upon them at a public consistory later in the week in St. Peter...
Almost with awe one scans the list of scholars on whom Harvard will bestow honorary degrees at the Tercentenary of the university next September. Only a few of the names will be recognized even by educated persons, busy as they are with the ordinary activities of life. Many of the fields of study in which these scholars have specialized will be a terra incognita for the average man. What it "the ultra-centrifuge"? And "neo-positivism"? What is meant by "the chemistry of sesquiterpenes...
...conquest of the woes and the lightening of the burdens of human life. "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," with hardly a thought of material rewards for themselves, they quietly pursue their quests. Only at intervals does the world hear of them, as when they bestow some gift on their fellow-beings which makes all men their debtors. One is to be recognized at Harvard for his work with infectious diseases, another for his studies of the child mind, a third for his research in cugenics. There are biologists and economists in the list...
Greatest honor the U. S. can bestow is the Congressional Medal of Honor, a five-pointed gold star, swinging from a bar on which is engraved VALOR, below a blue ribbon dotted with 13 white stars. To prod privates, ineligible for other decorations, on to harder fighting, Congress during the second year of the Civil War passed an act providing for 2,000 medals "to such ... as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldierlike qualities during the present insurrection." The first medals were bestowed by Abraham Lincoln on four Yankee sergeants and two privates...
...worshipped with him. In solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified. It was made known last week that the Pope would not celebrate Easter Mass in St. Peter's nor bestow public blessings on his flock as he did last year...