Word: gov
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United States Senators Bayard and Morrill, Professor Goldwin Smith, Gov. Cleveland, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Andrew D. White, Rev. Joseph Pullman, Judge Thomas C. Manning, Bishop Ponick, Congressman John Goode, Charles Dudley Warner, Bishop Bowman, Rev. Robert Collyer, besides such orators as President Porter of Yale and President Barnard of Columbia, are among the college commencement orators of this year...
...perhaps unnecessary to explain in reference to our editorial of yesterday that Gov. Butler and not the HERALD was the one who ascribed the authorship of "The Brook" to Longfellow...
...that the question of Gov. Butler's degree has been decided, a few comments of the press may be of interest. Those that follow were written before the overseers' meeting...
...eminent services in the cause of his country and to this society." The first governor who had a degree was James Sullivan in 1807-8; but it is noteworthy that down to 1823 and even later, with few exceptions, the governors already possessed degrees given by the college. From Gov. Sullivan in 1807 until Gov. Butler in 1883, each one, with one exception, (namely, Increase Sumner, in 1797,) has had his degree, and since 1840 there has been an unbroken line of governors who have had honorary degree conferred upon them. The men represent every distinct shade of political feeling...
...have Gov. Butler's own assurance for it that he is perfectly competent to read and translate the Latin degree of doctor of laws given by Harvard, a thing which few other men in the country are able to do. This certainly implies a vast amount of learning in his excellency, and it was, perhaps, in consideration of this that Williams College some years ago dubbed him LL. D. The governor does not appear to be so strong, however, in English literature as he is in Latin. Friday last, in the course of a speech, he referred to Longfellow...