Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Billings Kellogg: Late Senator, Ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of State: ever eager in each office to abate recourse...
...also. I hope the graduates who are returning for their reunions will find time to visit the site of this building. It is made possible through the generous gifts of three anonymous donors, but unfortunately the building cannot be finished unless $200,000 is forthcoming before late fall...
...theory that what was good enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us. The present result of this policy has without question left the Phi Beta Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying to offer in the way of an education will know where to direct his smile when he sees a man stride across the platform to receive his degree with a summa or a high magna but looks in vain for any flash of gold dangling from...
...been added to the collection of John Donne's poems and sermons, which has been one of the features of the Harvard Library ever since the gift of Professor Charles Eliot Norton's library. One of these came from Mr. White's library, and two from that of the late Edmund Gosse. In this case gratification over these additions is tempered by the fact that it was not possible to find the necessary money to buy a fourth Donne title which came into the possession of a London bookseller during the year...
Cornell has honored only two men? the late Andrew Dickson White and David Starr Jordan. An unbaked tradition says that a cause for Cornell's not giving honorary degrees is the outcry that arose?in and out of Cornell but especially in?over Dr. David Starr Jordan's unflinching pacifism during the War. The fact is that Dr. Jordan, Cornell '72, was honored three decades before the War, in 1886, the same year as Andrew Dickson White, who helped Ezra Cornell found Cornell. Their university gave no honorary degrees between 1886 and the Jordan pacifism. Very early in its career...