Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keith Kane '22, a member of the Corporation's subcommittee on honorary degrees, said in an interview last spring that the Corporation grants the honorary degrees "with the idea in mind of bringing honor to Harvard. Thus we do not choose people who are controversial...
...even Harvard's ultra-safe policy can backfire. Back in 1833, for example, the Harvard Corporation felt compelled to grant a degree to President Andrew Jackson when Jackson made a trip to Boston. The members of the Corporation disagreed with Jackson's politics, but felt it had to honor him as it had honored Monroe when he visited Boston. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard Overseer, did not take part in the confirmation vote, and he later wrote in his diary that it was a disgrace to confer the University's "highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write...
CELEBRATE, v.t.: to solemnize; to honor or observe by refraining from business or by exuberant merrymaking; to proclaim, publish abroad; to extol, sound the praises of. Herewith a celebration of Jonathan Strong, a senior who in his long undergraduate nights has made himself a novella called Tike and five stories besides...
Independence has taken the news of Truman's honor calmly, though citizens here realize how much the degree means to "Our President," as they are fond of calling him. The only formal ceremony planned here is, however, an honor guard which will salute Truman as he boards the jet, and again when he returns from Boston, probably on Friday morning...
...honor guard will be composed of the nine surviving members of the Missouri National Guard company which Truman commanded in World...