Word: conference
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...University will confer honorary degrees on 12 individuals—including a Nobel laureate, two people who have served as presidents of Ivy League universities, and a managing director of the World Bank—at today’s Commencement exercises. Nine men and three women will be honored...
Just what action Councillor Sullivan plans to take is as yet unknown. He did say that he will confer with Cambridge and University police “very soon.” “I believe it’s squarely up to Harvard officials to provide space. The University’s Western Avenue parking lot behind the Business School is far too distant for student use. Maybe we can make some use of the parking facilities around Cambridge Common by opening this area to students from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m.,” he concluded...
Mayor Edward A. Crane ’35 appointed Sullivan chairman of a special committee to confer with University officials on student parking. This followed a lengthy discussion of the situation in last Monday’s City Council meeting...
...council instructed City Manager Robert W. Healy to confer with the Cambridge police commissioner and the Middlesex County district attorney’s office to determine existing standards for sexual assault allegations and rights of sexual assault victims...
...aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook...