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...seems to me that you do not practice what you preach, for on Page 5 of the same issue I notice you speak of William W. Russell, Jerry Shea, Edwin Denby, William V. Hodges and C. Bascom Slemp without using any other title and do not prefix "Mr." to their names. So, you lay yourself liable to the imputation of not using the "Mr." in speaking of other persons...
...prefix Right Honorable indicates that the member is a Privy Councillor. All members of the Cabinet have to be Privy Councillors...
...baby, although a commoner, will be sixth in line of succes sion to the British Throne. His elder brother, grandson of King George, is known as Master George Henry Hubert Lascelles. When his father succeeds to the Earldom of Harewood, he and his brother will be able to prefix Honorable to their names...
Last December the editors of the Advocate voted: "That the President of the '86 board be authorized to prepare a catalogue of the past and present editors of the Advocate and to prefix to the catalogue a short history of the paper: that a copy of this catalogue be sent to each past editor of the paper." Of course the work of preparing the catalogue fell to Mr. T. T. Baldwin...
...that their individual talents justify their organizing companies, well and good; they have a perfect right to do so as private persons, or as a band of Harvard students, though we should think delicacy might prevent the use of the latter title. But they have no right whatever to prefix the word "Harvard" to their club, since by doing so they make it a representative body, - a thing that it emphatically is not. While we condemn such practices as vigorously as we know how, we do not wish to judge special cases so harshly. The "Harvard Arion Quartette," of last...