Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Education, TIME, June 8, I note the name of one James Michael Curley as the recipient, from the Staley College of the Spoken Word, Inc., of the degree ''D.O." I am not familiar with this degree. Is it, perhaps, Doctor of Obliquity...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Chicago, President of the University of Chicago since 1929. "A daring educational administrator whose keen weapons from the armory of the past out deep into the academic complacency of the present...
HENRY KNOX SHERRILL: DOCTOR OF DIVINITY, of Boston, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Massachusetts since 1930. "A modern bishop of that ancient church our dissenting founders sought to change, a beloved leader of his faith, a wise counsellor to those of many creeds...
FREDERICK ROBERTSON GRIFFIN: DOCTOR OF DIVINITY, of Philadelphia, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia since 1927. "A pastor and preacher of distinction, a worthy representative of the long line of spiritual leaders who have been the fruit of the Puritans' concern for a learned ministry...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN: DOCTOR OF LETTERS, of Cambridge, England, Regins Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University since 1927. "An English historian whose wise reinterpretation of the family history delights and instructs the Anglo-Saxon cousins on this side of the Atlantic...