Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years after he had received his diploma from Yale, he went to live in St. Louis and, as Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, associated himself with the Missouri Medical College in the early days of that institution. When only 34, he became a judge, speedily earned a sobriquet of honor: "Iron Judge." In his post-judicial days, he put iron into the feeble Republican Party and was at least partly responsible for Missouri's voting for Republican Presidents in '04, '08, '20, '24. He was one of the few Republicans elected to the Senate from Missouri...
Last week, he ordered two of his large estates to be divided and distributed among his tenants on a deferred payment plan. He hoped that other grandees would follow suit. His tenants prepared to hold a series of festivals in his honor...
...under her protection. President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State planted the Irish standard before her tomb. The Bishop of Alaska confided his scattered Indians and Eskimos to her charge. A Catholic cathedral in the newest diocese in the U. S.-Monterey-Fresno-is to be built in her honor.*Two years ago, the Pope beatified her; more than 60,000 persons went to Rome. At the beatification triduum at Lisieux, 100,000 persons were present; the Pope sent a Legate and there were no less than three Cardinals, 14 Bishops and 500 Priests. In the past ten years, some...
...group of public utilities in the West -many of them grown up out of Mr. Edison's inventions -President of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and in general a magnate of the Middle West. He, with others-aids and witnesses of wholesale changes wrought by Edison inventions-did honor to the inventor.' Through it all a big white head nodded modest appreciation, a pair of bright blue eyes twinkled with pleasure...
...this full length, without adopting the tutorial system itself, but it does so at the expense of certain advantages which have not been sacrificed at Harvard. It leaves the curriculum of the average student unchanged, whereas the University provides tutorial instruction for everyone, and it proposes to instruct its honor students partly in small sections, a method evidently inferior, although less expensive, to the individual conference with a tutor...