Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otis F. Glenn of Illinois, the stocky, drawling lawyer who prosecuted the murderers at Bloody Herrin, was watched for as the man slated to place Candidate Lowden in nomination. Delegate (Mrs.) Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late famed G. 0. Politician Mark Hanna, said she had accepted the honor of seconding Delegate Glenn's motion. Other notable daughters were to be present-Mrs. Leona Knight of Providence, R. I., to cast at least one vote for her father, Candidate Curtis of Kansas; Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University...
...great deal of publicity has been given the two students in American universities who recently turned down Phi Beta Kappa keys and the result has been much talk and speculation among students and others as to their reasons for refusing to accept an honor so great...
After all, there are only two possible reasons we can see why such an honor should be passed up. The first is a desire to be original and individual. This is a desire which burns in the breast of many a young man and woman, both in universities and outside. It tempered with discretion, such a desire is well worth while. But if one permits his desires in that direction to run into the unreasonable it at once becomes ludicrous...
...discrepancy between these well defined groups of students, separated here only by the loose candidature for distinction thus steadily grows, official recognition of the gap cannot be too distant an eventuality. The complete reservation of the Reading Period and the Tutorial System for the students who elect honors and retain their position with honor grades, may or may not be possible and desirable. But with the experiments with the Junior college, with classification of entrants, with such a pronouncement as that of the Yale council, acceptance of the obvious, in short., that freedom is stimulation and opportunity for the capable...
...decorations were to be given, I certainly could reasonably expect one worthy of my rank. I didn't ask for the Legion of Honor, but only said the decoration should correspond to my position in the musical world...