Word: conference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...altered to the second Wednesday in July or to the first Tuesday, that is, July 1. The change was eventually made to July 1 but before Commencement Day arrived the President had fallen sick and Rev. William Hubbard of Ipswich was appointed to preside at the exercises and to confer the degrees. The President himself died the next day, July 2, the sun beginning to emerge out of a central eclipse...
Protocol Delay. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, chief British delegate, stated that his Government, which has just come into office, had not yet had time to consider the protocol or to confer with the Dominions over what was to be their common attitude toward it. He accordingly asked for an adjournment, which was to be an adjournment and nothing more than an adjournment?the Geneva protocol was not to be considered dead. The delay requested was unanimously voted by the Council. The whole protocol question (TIME, Oct. 13) was thereby shelved until the March meeting of the Council...
...fitting that Dr. Murlin. should have the opportunity to confer a degree upon the first lady of the land just at this time. After Christmas, Dr. Murlin, honorably released (TIME, Oct. 6), leaves Boston University to assume the presidency of his alma mater, De Pauw University (Greencastle, Ind.). Last week, the Boston trustees voted Dr. Murlin an honorarium of $5,000 in appreciation of a 13-year administration during which the University grew from a body of 1,347 students to one of over 12,000. At the same time, the trustees appointed as Dr. Murlin's temporary successor Bishop...
...Howard Coonley '99 will confer in formally with undergraduates interested in business this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union. Mr. Coonley's visit to the University is under the auspices of the Committee on the Choice of Vocations...
Coach Louis Silvers of the Hasty Pudding Club's annual production, will be here today, tomorrow and Wednesday to confer with the authors and musicians and to choose the cast...