Word: governour
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...religious peace between Anglicans and Catholics, who have been divided for four centuries. As thousands of people cheered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, John Paul strode into the inner courtyard to meet another sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II, in a cheerily informal turquoise dress, was the Supreme Governour of the Church of England, John Paul the head of the Church of Rome; and both heads of state. It was a very private meeting-35 minutes in length, but of incalculable significance...
Otherwise the exercises have been held every year since 1642, and although the traditional basis has been more or less the same, the tone of the festivities has varied greatly. A chronicle tells us that for the first exercises "nine Bachelours, the Governour, the Magistrates, and Ministers from all parts, with all sorts of scholars were present, and did hear their exercises. Then having dined together in Commons, they sang a Psalm and were well content." This note of austerity was lost toward the end of the Seventeenth Century, as the Harvard Commencement Day became a general State holiday...
...General Court ordered "that the Governour & Deputy for the time being & all the magistrats of this jurisdiction, together with the teaching elders of the sixe next adjoining townes . . .shall have full power. . . in the furthering of the said college & the several members thereof in piety, morality, & learning...
...went early to Mr. Inman's who made the Genteelest Entertainment I ever saw on account of his son George taking his Degree yesterday--he had Three hundred forty seven Gentlemen & Ladies dined. Two hundred & Ten at one Table--amongst the Company The Governour & Family, The Lieut. Governour & Family. The Admirall & Family & all the Remainder, Gentlemen & Ladies of Character & Reputation. The whole was conducted with much Ease & Pleasure & all Joyned in making each other Happy--such an Entertainment has not been made in New England before on any Occasion. I ( - - - ) went to the Ball at the Town House, where most...
...foreign visitor has been present at the chapter's meetings, as a guest of honor, or to be received into honorary membership, or himself to act as orator or poet., As early as 1788 the records tell of "a very respectable audience consisting of his Excellency John Hancock Esq., Governour of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Monsieur Senneville Commander of his Most Christian Majesty's Squadron at Boston and other officers of the fleet." In 1824 the Harvard Chapter was host to Lafayette. The orator of that year, Edward Everett, closed with "an address to La Fayette exceeding anything we have...