Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distinguished by his editorship of "Dictionary of American Biography," Malone will receive national recognition of his career as historian, teacher, and editor. At the commencement exercises Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and President Harold Dodds of Princeton will be given the titles of Doctors of Laws...
...detailed chronicle of the Tercentenary year, and the hour-by-hour record of the Tercentenary days. Here are given the addresses of the President and the President Emeritus of the University, of the President of the United States, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, of he Tercentenary Historian and the La-in Orator, of guests from Paris, Oxford, end Cambridge, the two Americas, China, and Japan...
...otherwise, had frustrated the people's will. First instance he mentioned was the fight of 1919 by which Senator Borah and other Irreconcilables blocked U. S. entry into the League of Nations. Condemning Jefferson's old enemy, Chief Justice John Marshall, as a tool of the interests, Historian Dodd argued that most of the great People's Presidents-Jefferson, Lincoln. Cleveland. Roosevelt I and Wilson-had been frustrated by selfish minorities operating through Court decisions, Senate filibusters and Party splits. If the same thing should now happen to Franklin Roosevelt, he feared for U. S. democracy. Unmentioned...
...commemorate the anniversary last fall, a section has been given over to the Tercentenary. An historical sketch by Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History and Tercentenary Historian, is inset with small cuts, from Harvard's past, followed by an account of the Tercentenary Days by John B. Bowditch '37, which is framed by bleed-off panels of scenes from the celebration...
...toastmaster will be Samuel E. Morison, professor of History and Tercentenial Historian. According to society tradition the University silver will be used...