Word: conference
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard was compelled by the government to confer upon Butler her highest degree of nobility. With true Attic astuteness the venerable university enacted a law making her degrees revocable and had him by the hair; for, on the evening of commencement, she revoked his LL. D. for disorderly conduct in the yard...
Lost - On Fresh Pond, a stylographic (A. T. Cross) pen. Finder will confer a favor by leaving the same at 21 Grays...
Lost - A roll containing a $5 bill and a $1, and having a rubber band around it. The finder will confer a favor by leaving it at Drury...
...writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question is not at issue. The college authorities can surely announce that they will not vote to confer degrees unless they see fit to do so. But to say - if the English means anything - that they will meet, formally vote the degrees, either with or without a condition, hand them over, and then revoke them, if they see fit, suggests a course of action which so intimately concerns...
Lost - A Cross Stylographic pen with an "F" scratched on the top. Finder will confer a great favor by leaving it at Drury...