Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today Thomas Alva Edison, most illustrious product of the Horatio Alger academy of success, reaches his eightieth year. And with the festival come congratulatory telegrams by the basket full: flowers--and Henry Ford. Honor comes to whom honor is due. For Edison is one of those fortunate geniuses who has received fame while he is still able to enjoy it. On him--as on only too few--are showered flowers for the living...
...been the custom, the privilege and the honor, for incoming editorial boards to announce the arrival of a new era--one which, the young hopefuls are fond of asserting, bears close resemblancme to the millenium. The Yale Daily News, however, declares that it is abandoning this egotistic bombast: the new board offers no "elaborate platform"; conservatism will be the watchword, and the new editors will not rashly discard the traditions...
...Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education was established by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to honor the name of the late Professor Alexander Inglis, of the School, who, at the time of his death in 1924, was an outstanding leader in the field of secondary education. Through the lectures, which are open to the public and are published annually, the School has an opportunity to make contribution to the field to which Professor Inglis devoted his life work...
...News will be on hand at a full dress rehearsal to obtain motion pictures of the show. Invitations have been extended to the members of the "Queen High" and "Castles in the Air" companies to a theatrical tea to be given at the Club this week end in honor of the "Shoot the Works" cast. Invitations have already been sent out to patronesses, and the programs are being prepared...
Leys then shipped for Singapore, where he taught dancing for a while at a hotel. Later he joined an Italian circus on the waterfront, and finally achieved the honor of being head of the checkroom for the ball which was being held in honor of the Prince of Wales, visiting there. During all this while Leys was losing time, while Plumer was racing on to New York...