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...next honorary degree was given in Harvard's more traditional manner, when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada was awarded the Doctor of Laws amid the pomp and ceremony of the 1923 Commencement...
...seated as their Moderator Dr. David McKenzie. Said one of them: "We have come to praise the disruption fathers, not to entomb them anew under any rearrangement of admitted facts." By & large, the good folk of Edinburgh seemed somewhat indifferent to both installations. Some citizens even derided the ceremonial pomp of the larger group. John Knox, some felt sure, would have lambasted their ceremonial complacency just as roundly as he had denounced Queen Mary's. Said one shrewd old Scottish reprobate, watching the colorful procession debouching from St. Giles's : "Just luik at they weeked auld deevils...
Only a few weeks ago, revolt against the New Deal had fired the Governors to high talk. They were solemnly resoluting again when Franklin Roosevelt headed south. Each Governor scurried to his home state to meet the President. After they had ridden with him in pomp & circumstance, the Governors whistled a notably different tune...
Together with Price will be William Allan Neilson '98, former president of Smith College, and a colleague of George Lyman Kittredge '82, and Bliss Perry in the great days of the English department. Returning to the House which he left with such pomp and ceremony last year will be Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, John P. Kennedy, Jr. '44, chairman of the House Committee will speak in behalf of the undergraduate. All House Alumni are especially invited to take part in the dinner...
...rehired as a reporter, but later was laid off. He tried short-story writing, then caught on as a reporter for the London Daily Mirror. There he acquired no reputation, but did acquire a wife: Mirror Reporter Phillida Hughes. They were once assigned to cover a pomp-&-pageantry affair. Since both suffered from ochlophobia (fear of crowds), they covered it from a tea shop. Gubbins wrote a glowing account of the occasion sight unseen and had time left to persuade Phillida to marry...