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Early in their history honorary degrees were just what the uninitiated would expect of them. They were tributes given by the universities to men who had made a significant contribution to the world of learning or who had performed some especially laudable deed in the service of humanity. As learning became more commercialized during the nineteenth century and competition between the universities keener, the requirements for an honorary degree became ever more lenient, until the present spectacle of politicians, rich suckers, and back writers receiving honors from the colleges should disgust any one with the slightest pride in higher education...
...Braddock v. Madison Square Garden or vice versa, the first round went to Braddock on negative points (Federal Court, 1937, Fake, J.). However, Braddock now proceeds 'sub suo periculo' and is, among other things, subject to estoppel by deed of Louis, J., when, as and if the issue is presented 'per curiam' on June 22, as specified on the Illinois calendar...
...more logical to deduce that the dastardly deed at Duck Hill typifies the spirit of Mississippi than to conclude, on the basis of gang killings and torture slayings, that all New Yorkers are murder-minded...
...eighth largest steel company for a third of a century without the loss of a pound of production or an hour's work from labor trouble. Armco spirit, Mr. Verity once wrote, makes for "Pep, Pride, Production, Progress, Patriotism and Prosperity." To Middletowners George Verity seems in deed eternal...
Then he craftily tore back to his dressing room and hastily slipped on an old suit of clothes; he had good reason, for the deed was done, and as Hutter finished his great 440 the Yale jinx was ended. The meet was soon finished and from the high board a Harvard man, fully clothed, dove into the pool. He was only one of the countless number who had lost money. It might not be amiss to recall the Yale News article appearing shortly before the meet--"My chips are colored Blue--on past experience. So come on Harvard...