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...search of undergraduate truants, spotted two G.I.s emerging from a pub. The "bullers" (proctor's legmen) got set to grab their silk hats* and give chase. But the Americans held their ground. When he was close enough to speak without raising his voice, the proctor tipped his .mortarboard in greeting and put the traditional progging question: "Sir, are you a member of the University?" One of the G.I.s nudged his companion and demanded loudly, beerily, and in approximately these words: "Say, Eddie, who the rut is this rutting...
...guardianship setup. Its decision: unnecessary "intervention in [the Dionnes'] affairs should not persist." A contributory factor: public opinion has turned more & more toward Oliva Dionne ever since the late Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, also a Quint guardian, was photographed in 1939 in New York City wearing a pink mortarboard and a sign reading: "Doctor of Litters...
When Lewis H. Brown, president of Johns-Manville Corp., was an undergraduate at the State University of Iowa (class of 1915) he was much impressed by the dean of education, Dr. Walter Albert Jessup, a grave, bulky man who looked uncomfortable in a mortarboard. Dr. Jessup did not stay put. Year after Lewis Brown's graduation he was made president of the university, less because of his brilliance as an educator than his ability for raising money; in 1934 he went East to be president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Last week Lewis Brown made...
...Elizabeth wore the lower part of her new State Crown placed on her head at the Coronation (TIME, May 24). This blazed with the 106-carat Kohinoor diamond once in the State Crown of Queen Mary who, not present at last week's Court, recently appeared wearing a mortarboard when she graciously laid at Oxford the cornerstone of an extension of the famed Bodleian Library. If she liked, the Queen Mother could sign herself Mary, LL.D., D.C.L., Mus.D. Palace gossip had it that it was excitable Randolph Churchill, journalistic son of Statesman Winston Churchill, who had aroused Edward...
...last week stood two eminent U. S. surgeons. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., husband of the elder daughter of the elder Mayo Brother, was wearing cap & gown. Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan stood in evening dress. Suddenly with a great grin, Dr. Balfour took off his mortarboard, clapped it on the thin grey thatch of Dr. Pool. Thus playfully did Dr. Balfour symbolize the fact that he was passing on to Dr. Pool the presidency of the American College of Surgeons, convened before them for its annual meeting...