Word: litt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grisweld; A. H. Hall; Leonard Hammer; J. G. Harder; John Hay; Bernard Helfat; R. A. Herzberg; S. V. Kean; H. S. Kernan; Robert Kernan; D. B. Kitchel; E. B. Knowlton; Norman Lanz; J. N. Latorraca; Ralph Lawson; Maurice Lazarus; B. G. Leighton; G. S. Lewis; A. H. Litt; F. M. Ludden; Kenneth MacLeish; D. N. McKay; J. S. Munroe; J. D. Ogilby; E. H. Osgood; Alfonse Ossorio; H. R. Patch, Jr.; John Parcell; E. C. Reppun; E. F. Ringer; F. M. Rivinus; R. E. Rogers; H. P. Rosen; J. C. Rowley; Nicholas Satterlee; Peter Scott; R. L. Scott...
...sniff at the Conference's selfimportance. South to Cadiz is the record of his Spanish holiday, written in his familiar brow-wrinkled style, as if he had puffed it thoughtfully out of an old pipe stuffed with a shaggy mixture of Lamb, Stevenson and Conrad. A journalist to littérateurs, a littérateur to journalists, Author Tomlinson is pleasant company for plain readers who like to browse quietly by the side of the road...
Other kudos of the fortnight: Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland) President Arthur Cutts Willard of University of Illinois. . . . . . . . . . . . . D.E. Columbia University (New York) Professor Emeritus Ernest William Brown of Yale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC. D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC.D. Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. President Harold Willis Dods of Princeton . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Surrogate James Aloysius Foley of New York Country . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Economist Calvin Bryce Hoover of Duke University . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. British Economist John Maynard Keynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Russell Henry Stafford of Boston's Old South Church . . . . . . . . . . S.T.D Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) U.S. Commissioner...
...celebrate, a bit ahead of time, its 150th birthday. Meeting in Chancellors' Hall in Albany in their 69th convocation, the Regents elected Vice Chancellor James Byrne, Manhattan lawyer, to succeed the late Chancellor Chester Sanders ("Boss") Lord, longtime managing editor of the New York Sun. They gave a Litt. D. degree to Dr. Herbert Seeley Weet, Rochester Superintendent of Schools, and an LL. D to Alfred Emanuel Smith. Said Dr. Smith: "Education writes a good large insurance policy against the foolish notions of the Socialists, Communists, Naziists and all the others who are arrayed against constitutional government...
...University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical School. The last two and Author Morley were given honorary Litt. D. degrees at last week's celebration...