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Throughout most of the nineteenth century, the LL.D. was regarded as the highest honor accorded by Harvard. Until after the Civil War, it clearly outranked the other honorary degrees, which at that time included the M.A., S.T.D., and M.D. Now there is no "rank list" of honorary doctorates, since all awards recognize high degrees of individual merit. To correlate better the degree with achievement, many new types of award have been established...
Henry James rightfully inaugurated the awards for fiction given by Harvard. His Litt. D. in 1911 has been followed by degrees to James Gould Cozzens, John P. Marquand, and others; many famed historians whose writings may rank high on the best-seller list have also been accorded the Litt. D. Men honored in this fashion include Samuel Eliot Morison, George Macauley Trevelyan, Bruce Catton, and Frederick Merk...
...million, and may in time reach a level of 2½% of all British imports. Britain refused Moscow's request for long-term government credit, but expects to sell the Russians "very substantial" amounts of industrial equipment no longer on the West's strategic embargo list, including complete chemical, plastics and tire plants. The parties also agreed for the first time to exchange $6,000,000 worth of consumer goods annually, including a few token Soviet cars (the Moskvich and the Volga...
...dispute was for control of the powerful, 450,000-member Sugar Workers Federation. To gain a voice in it, the Communists used an old ploy: they headed their slate of candidates with Conrado Becquer, 39, a respected, longtime labor leader. Becquer shot to his feet, denounced the Red list, swept to victory as the Castro candidate for secretary-general by a vote...
Nevertheless, the rate will almost certainly be well above the expected one, and this will probably mean that the College will not be able to take any men from the waiting list, for the first time in the Admissions Office history...