Word: buttler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle of the Hall A Table was Set for the Governor and Council to Sit at; things being thus prepared, The Governor Ordered the Library Keeper to carry down (under his right arm) The College Charter, Books of Record and Laws and the Seal upon them; He ordered the Buttler to carry down the Keys in his Lefthand; then the Governor took Mr. Leverett by the Hand. Led him out of the Library (after the books and Keys) down into the Hall, where, the Books, Seal Keys were laid on the Table in the Midst of the Hall...
...Leverett installation, the "Library Keeper" and the College "Buttler" preceded the President into the College Hall, the first bearing the Charter, Books and Seal, and the second the Keys. These were laid on the table, and then transferred to the President by the Governor of the Province of Massachusetts...
...College "Buttler" and "Liberty-keeper" figure prominently in this model ceremony. It is quite possible that this nomenclature may precipitate a flurry of sociable controversy. How, for example, is one to state whether the lefthanded keeper of the keys is to be Mr. Endicott, Mr. Saeger, or, to proceed, Mr. Westcott? And who, pray, in the Widener terminological maze would forfeit his mellifluous title for the Charter and Seal...