Word: ripon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Boyd-Carpenter, 51, Minister of Pensions. Grandson of the "silvertongued" Bishop of Ripon who was Queen Victoria's favorite preacher, Boyd-Carpenter is an effective verbal duelist in the House of Commons, a stickler for detail, and a vigorous administrator who is likely to get any particularly tough chore facing the Macmillan administration...
...President, who holds honorary degrees from Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wesleyan, Coe, and Ripon, will return immediately after the ceremonies...
...finally discarded the use of the Fifth Amendment, and though both had freely admitted that they had once been members of the Communist Party, neither would play informer against others who might have been members too. ¶ Appointment of the week: Clark George Kuebler, 46, president of Ripon College, Wis., to succeed J. Harold Williams as second provost of the University of California's Santa Barbara College. A former assistant professor of classics at Northwestern University, Kuebler took over Ripon when only 35. In the eleven years since, he has upped enrollments from 160 to 600. boosted his endowment...
...lapel and joined the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at their annual dinner. During the week he pressed, as all Presidents must, a couple of ceremonial buttons: one. on the Republican Party's 100th birthday, that lighted up an "eternal flame" at the little schoolhouse in Ripon. Wis. where the G.O.P. was born; the other activated the big new Fort Randall Dam on the Upper Missouri River (see BUSINESS...
This is the first degree that Pusey has received since he was named President of Harvard this year. He holds honorary degrees from Wesleyan, Coe College, and Ripon. All three were awarded while he was president of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin...