Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctor of Laws: Citation: "Governor of the Commonwealth and former Overseer of Harvard College; a multitude of devoted friends and proud fellow citizens applaud his high integrity and courageous public service...
...safely, 300-year-old ritual, solemnizing the awards of nearly 2,000 degrees, opened with the colorful formal academic procession when the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth, the Mayors of Boston and Cambridge, and other public officials, officers of the Army and the Navy, dignitaries of the church, and candidates for degrees, alumni, and special guests, in cap and gown or other formal attire solemnly marched into Sever Quadrangle...
Doctor of Laws: Citation: "Governor of the Commonwealth and former Overseer of Harvard College; a multitude of devoted friends and proud fellow citizens applaud his high integrity and courageous public service...
...gaunt, nervous-smiling man with the tapir nose became a local hero. Politicos, businessmen, shipping bigwigs stopped him on the street to chat. He was invited to talk at San Francisco's snooty Commonwealth Club. Now that Russia's war and the U.S.'s war was one, Harry Bridges was doing more than most men on the Coast to help smash the Axis nations...
...morning exercises in Sever quadrangle to order, striking the platform thrice with his scabbard. Other ceremonies harking back to Harvard's early Colonial days and its heritage from the English universities will be the seating of the University President in an ancient Tudor chair; the participation of church and commonwealth officials; the adherence to traditional forms of speech in presenting candidates for degrees; and the Latin Oration by a Senior...