Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual dinner of the Governing Board of the Union will be given in the Faculty Room at 7 o'clock this evening in honor of the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The results of this year's Union Essay contest will be announced at the event...
...Union began the practice of giving a dinner in honor of a nationally prominent graduate just after the World War, and it has been continued every year since then, with two exceptions. This year for the first time the Union is honoring a group of men in the belief that it is desirable for the undergraduates to meet the men who actually run the University...
...Haven, Conn., March 27--President James Rowland Angell of Yale an nounced today that the Corporation had voted to honor the memory of two Yale graduates of the eighteenth century, who became the first presidents of Princeton and Dartmouth, by naming the dormitory buildings now located at York and Library Streets. Dickinson Hall and Wheelock Hall. Funds for the erection of these buildings were provid by a bequest made to Yale by the late M. Judson of Bridgeport. Conn...
...small Norwegian town of Skien. As a boy Henrik Ibsen was apprenticed to an apothecary and helped to grind powders, make pills and mix possets. Because he did not stick to that trade, but became a great poet and a greater dramatist, all Norway united, last week, to honor his birth-cen tenary with impressive ceremonies and revivals of his greatest plays at Oslo, Norwegian capital, and in Bergen, the sea port where he lived and labored for the theatre in his early years...
...written by an Englishman. One of course, is Thornton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey." The Lawrenceville teacher seems to have won quite a following abroad with the restrained writing of his philosophical novel. "The Bridge", however, is not the first in the eyes of Englishmen. That honor goes to "The Ugly Duchess", Feuchtwanger's historical romance which is among the first five on this side of the Atlantic. The publishers of "The Ugly Duchess" report that as far as they have been able to ascertain, no other translation of a German novel has made such a record...