Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution of respect" to which Son Tyler objected was passed in February when the Virginia House of Delegates adjourned in honor of Lincoln's Birthday. Dr. Tyler's contribution to the pamphlet of protest was a letter written by him to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It said...
...preeminently the type of scholar which has done the most to raise the academic standards of Harvard to their present high national and international rank. While his crowning honor came with the Noble prize for special achievement in chemistry in 1914, he had previously, in 1901, received a flattering invitation from the Prussian government which indirectly was a compliment to Harvard and the scientific advances of American universities in general. In declining the offer then made him of a full professorship of inorganic chemistry at the University of Gottingen, Professor Richards revealed an appreciation of and a loyalty to Harvard...
Professor Richards received in 1914 the greatest honor a scientist may be accorded, the Nobel Prize...
...member of many societies, among these the Legion of Honor of France. Other academies he belonged to were the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, American Classical Society, Royal Swedish Academy, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1910 he was awarded the Davy Medal by the Royal Society...
...also encouraging men to do more individual work, although this entails increased faculty Ritual class work is not required for honor men, with the expectation that more effort will be spent in individual study...