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President Conant '14 has been granted the title of "doctor honoris causa" by Algiers University, the Brazzaville radio announced yesterday...
...Honoris Causa...
...seldom been regarded as a great interpreter of music, but he made good programs, played new music, helped along such composers as George Gershwin. A man of immense energy and many friends, Dr. Damrosch still puts in an eight-hour work day. As NBC's musical counsel honoris causa, he has worked at a steady job for 13 years: NBC's Music Appreciation Hour. Every Friday some 7,000,000 youngsters, most of them in public-school classes, await with pencils and notebooks the mellow baritone of nice old Dr. Damrosch: "Good afternoon, my dear children...
Until the spring of 1934, Boris was just another playful Balkan monarch. He liked most of all the boyish pastime of playing with railroad trains - real ones. His royal hobby became so famous that Yugoslav engineers named him Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele...
...elme, invocati, sub toga quaque cor sine mendacio et sine coronary thrombosis pulsare scimus. O, moraturi (ex inquistionibus) vos salutamus. Vos intrepidos de metu libri careuleri vereti sumus. Pro vobis solis fores gloriae et W P A apertae sunt. Yalens, officiumque bursaris vobis de causa elata sunt."--Yale News Editorial...