Word: rules
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornell University has given only two honorary degrees in its entire history-to Andrew Dickson White, co-founder and first president of Cornell, and to David Starr Jordan, now president emeritus of Stanford University. State universities, as a rule, are chary of granting honorary degrees. For example, the University of Minnesota has honored only its president emeritus, William Watts Folwell...
...first week after a national convention," said the New York Times after the Houston convention, "is always devoted to the noble political art of climbing aboard. There ought to be a rule against looking when the ungraceful act is performed...
...duty of the League of Nations, after ten years of absolute colonial rule, to grant to Palestine a democratic parliamentary government in accordance with the League's pledges and the pledges of the allies to the Arabs...
When a "clever child" is featured too much by its parents or their friends, it ceases to be clever or funny, as a rule. It is trying so hard to maintain its reputation for this gift, that sooner or later, it becomes obnoxious and boresome...
...degrees excludes the expenditure of any sentiment over the outcome of the boat race and others whose mania for a crimson victory on the Thames blinds them to the significance of the honors percentage. It is safe to say that these cases are the exception rather than the rule. In the majority which is composed happing of those who are able to maintain an equilibrium of interest and affection for every phase of their University's manifold being, the significance of the fast that Harvard today conferred 1884 degrees, the largest huminity in its history, bringing a close...