Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chooses to honor and to withhold honors where the character of the incumbent of the chief magistracy is not such as should be commended to popular exaltation. This course may give rise to much bitterness, and will, perhaps, be taken by a large portion of the governor's supporters as an affront to the people by "Boston aristocracy. . . This probably ends the attendance of the governor in state with the Lancers at the Harvard commencement, a parade which might as well be cut off for good. -[Springfield Republican...
...controversy over this matter has been somewhat excited, but there has at no time been any other reason given for conferring the degree than that it is usual to do so, whoever might be the governor. Now that the question has been decided, it may be expected that an attempt will be made to create sympathy for the governor as having been slighted, and it will be asserted that the college has set itself up above the wisdom of the people. It will be used as an argument to favor the governor's reelection and to injure the college...
...says: There is a great deal of idle talk about some supposed loss of popularity which is to accrue to Harvard College because its overseers, acting in the performance of the duties of their office, have not thought it proper to confer the degree of doctor of laws upon Governor Butler. We do not suppose that the overseers gave any special thought to the popularity or the unpopularity of their act. They had a simple duty to perform, and they performed it; and to suppose that the college is to lose its hold upon the public regard because the gentlemen...
...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's "Brook" and quoted the lines...
...course there is no real harm in an ordinary governor's mangling a quotation in this manner, but that one who aspired to a Harvard degree on the ground of his learning should thus betray himself is truly painful...