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Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the ministers of the six towns surrounding the College, various neighboring magistrates, and the Harvard Faculty...
William Warren Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania-LL.D. To the manor born and to American politics also, your statesmanlike vision has ranged over this country as well as this commonwealth. Your energetic and determined leadership has caught the imagination of your fellow citizens everywhere in the nation...
Fanny Hill was hauled into court Wednesday and charged by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with being "obscene, impure, and indecent...
...summary argument, the prosecutor charged that "no witness can in good conscience say that Fanny Hill is not obscene, impure, and indecent." These three terms appear in the Commonwealth statute and constitute the standards used by the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission, which recommended prosecution of Fanny Hill. The action against the book itself was taken by Attorney General Edward W. Brooke. The case is formally titled Brooke vs. A book Named John Cleland's "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (Commonly known as "Fanny Hill...
Praise & Hope. Illinois Democrat John Kluczynski was carried away too, and in heaping his thanks onto the pile, took note of Scranton's presidential situation. "I know you're doing a marvelous job as Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," Kluczynski gushed, praising with a faint damn, "and I hope you continue to do so for the rest of your term...