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...ceremony replete with all the color that scarlet, golden threaded, ermine-collared robes slashed with white and green could give it, 567 delegates from every state in the Union and 40 foreign countries were received by Pres-Conant in Sanders Theatre...
Professor Elie Cartan of the University of Paris replied in behalf of all the delegates present in French. The small Frenchman with a snow white Van Dkye, dressed in a brilliant scarlet robe declared, "In this land where the development of techniques based on scientific knowledge reached its height, you have always held that science, apart from its practical applications, has a value of its own as a means of culture for the soul; that, like the Humanities, it has its place among the highest of liberating disciplines...
...about 10.10 there will be a fanfare of four trumpets, the doors of Widener will open, and the Academic Procession will emerge: a colorful sight with its many-hued academic gowns, including the scarlet of Oxford and Cambridge, worn by a number of the Harvard faculty as well as by many of the guests. The various groups will march in the inverse order of rank, the professors first and President Conant and President Lowell marching last. The procession will be headed by the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk: a time-honored custom dating from the period when the boisterousness...
...Sudden rain, after the tea was half over, sent the King scurrying to the Palace for cover. At this the 5,000 Canadians, not knowing that English folk in similar circumstances usually take shelter under trees, dashed pell-mell after him into Buckingham where one astounded Palace flunky in scarlet & gold was heard to say to another, "It's like the bloody Revolution!" When skies cleared King Edward appeared on a balcony to speed the 5,000 parting guests with one of his most felicitous impromptu speeches. Not all of it could be heard above the laughter and applause...
...inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis. It may be due to chronic anemia, senility, cancer, arterial disease...