Word: causa
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...lepidissime, facetissime, venustissime, jocosissime, ridibundissime, te cum turba tua Leporum Facetiarum Venustatum locorum Risuum, ego . . . admitto ad gradum Doctoris in Litteris honoris causa,* said George Stuart Gordon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford to P. (for Pelham) G. (for Grenville) Wodehouse...
...this causal relation by stating that as a result of their status "a large part of the student body feel superior to and indifferent about Cambridge. He thinks its inhabitants are not only poor and ignorant but also unimportant." The townies sense and resent this attitude and hence the causa belli...
...them, sharp-cared, heard a soda cracker acting up in the closet where the icebox was placed. Skeptical, he approached the door cantiously. The "causa causans" was a tiny bluishgrey animal, nibbling. Lie sat down on the floor, fascinated, and watched...
Franklin Roosevelt did not "win his Phi Beta Kappa key through scholarship." Twice awarded him honoris causa, it was given by both Hobart College chapter and the Harvard College chapter in 1929. Other famed honorary Phi Beta Kappas: John Marshall. Washington Irving, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lorado Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Glenn Frank. In the past three years Phi Beta Kappa has awarded no honorary memberships...
...sentimental sociologists, the annual honors awarded by the 1,000 degree-granting U. S. colleges and universities provide a democratic U. S. equivalent of the British Honors List. As this year's kudos season opened, this notion was derided by Sportswriter John R. Tunis, writing on Honoris Causa in the June Harper's. Sneered Mr. Tunis: "Degrees are awarded with a canny eye for prestige, publicity, and good hard cash. . . . College trustees measure men by reputation rather than by real achievement. . . . One wonders what the effect would be on those bright young boys in the senior class...