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...years, erudite Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge, Litt. D., D. Litt., D. Lit., was Keeper of the Museum's Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. His monograph on Mike may be considered the acme of obital biography, fit to rank with his monumental Coptic History of Elijah the Tish- bite. No more awful authority could be found for the statement that Mike "preferred sole to whiting, and whiting to haddock, and sardines to herrings; for cod he had no use whatever. He owed much to the three kind-hearted gatekeepers who cooked his food for him, and treated...
William Lyon Phelps, A. B., Ph. D., A. M., Litt. D., Lampson Professor of the English Language & Literature at Yale University, Public Orator of Yale University, President of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, member of the National Institute of Arts & Letters, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, author, critic, lecturer, preacher, cheerleader,* clubman (Authors, Ends of the Earth, Fano, Pundits, Faerie Queen, Elizabethan), wrote as follows in his monthly department ("As I Like It") in Scribner's magazine for December...
...Ingersoll Lecturer for 1929-30, it was announced at University Hall yesterday afternoon. The appointment will bring Toronto's President here next spring. Recipient of many degrees including an LL. D. from Yale, Princeton, Glasgow, and Dublin, a D.D. from Edinburgh, a D.C.L. from Oxford, and a D. Litt, from Manchester, he has also been given the honor of Knight Commander of Saint Michael and Saint George...
James B. Hedges, who received his doctor's degree at Harvard in 1924, will be attached to the University for the whole year as lecturer on History. Arthur McC. Wilson, instructor in History at Grinnell College, comes here as an exchange lecturer from Grinnell. He received his Litt, B. degree from Oxford, where he was the Rhodes Scholar from South Dakota...
...ever necessary for President Hutchins of Chicago. He will command educational machinery used by nearly 15,000 students. To him for decisions will come such world-famed professors as Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, Greek Scholar Paul Shorey, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Theologian Shailer Mathews, Latinist Gordon Jennings Laing, English Littérateur Robert Morse Lovett. Physically the University of Chicago is among the hugest in the U. S. Buildings started last year included a Social Sciences Building, the Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital for Children, the George Herbert Jones Chemistry Building, a new $1,500,000 power house. When President Hutchins...