Word: presents
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Three state governors will be among those present. They are Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 of New York; Governor W. Tudor Gardiner '14, of Maine; and Governor Frank G. Allen, of Massachusetts, who will attend ex officio, Governor Roosevelt is Chief Marshal of the Alumni and as such will lead the procession to Sever and take an active part in all the exercises. Governor Gardiner will serve as Marshal of his class...
...very easy to spot a good "assistant," and also a poor one. In the first place, the good assistant knows his subject and can present it to his students in an intelligent way. In the second place, his attitude to his students is friendly. The poor "assistant" very often is so unable to teach that he completely conceals whatever knowledge he has of the subject. He gives the impression of knowing nothing whatsoever about it. He also gives the impression that he is out to "beat" the student in a little game that he wins if he can give...
Ernest Barker: Professor of Political Science in the University of Cambridge: keen interpreter of political thought and thinkers from the Greeks to the present...
...this feeling that he goes to the trouble of bringing his family back to Cambridge. Just so long as it is present beneath all the superficial glamor and excitement, attendant on his return, the class reunions will remain vital and justified. On the other hand when the time comes when it is the glamor that affords the attraction, and the glamor alone, then the critic will be justified in demanding the abolition of an outworn tradition...
...impressive of the University's guests, and the awarding of honor degrees is the most interesting part of the ceremony. It is a clever custom that keeps the names secret until the actual event, and an even more desirable one that makes it necessary for each recipient to be present in person. Sometimes one wishes that the same requirement might be enforced for candidates for regular degrees. Certainly the Senior's experiences of Commencement Week have become an unforgettable memory: he has been welcomed by the graduates body into which he now enters; he learns perhaps for the first time...