Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keith Kane '22, a member of the Corporation's sub-committee 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...
...France at the time of the Battle of the Bulge, Ware, then a lieutenant colonel, assembled a small squad of men and personally led the attack on a German fortification that had held up his battalion's advance. For that act he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for gallantry...
...that teaching career was a widely noted affair. The December 20, 1967, CRIMSON reported, "Hundreds of students and Faculty members packed Lowell Lecture Hall at 9 a.m. yesterday to do him honor. Their standing ovation at the end of the lecture seemingly overwhelmed and bewildered the kindly Brinton. When his attempts to quiet the applause only increased it, he simply grabbed his hat and coat and fled...
...Chuck Berry riff that opens the song, to the bar of feedback that ends it, and the lyrics are some of John Lennon's most rythmically controlled. And when at then end Lennon, rasping shouts, the challenge "All Right" over and over again one trembles in disbelief and honor that he is shouting at the wrong people...