Word: seale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest thing in attending commencement exercises is walking out on them; thus can the grim and hot-eyed war protester strike at the Government at the cost of some hapless official waiting in cap and gown for the honorary degree that the protesters conceive to be a seal of approval...
...joint classes; lecturers would speak for an hour at Harvard, then come to Long fellow Hall and repeat the performance. The Society, after 1893, awarded its own diplomas for the Bachelor's degree. But the diplomas were countersigned by the President of Harvard and were adorned with the Harvard seal. And Mrs. Agassiz, the first President of Radcliffe, referred to its students as "Harvard girls...
Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time-Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one grey toe Big as a Frisco seal...
...March for $26,552 per sq. in. At the sale, it was called a Hubert van Eyck, but the National's curators now attribute it to Rogier van der Weyden. They suspect that St. George is one part of a diptych whose matching half, which also bears the seal of Prussia's former ruler Frederick the Great on the back, is owned by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza in Switzerland...
...refer to themselves as "fourth" or "fifth" generation Californians in their social announcements. Sometimes this leads to an attempt at creating instant age; at ceremonies marking the opening of its original library building, U.C.L.A. authorities issued a statement that it was hereby declared "traditional" never to step on the seal embedded in the middle of the main hallway. But such exercises in nostalgia or the manufacture of new traditions do not change the fact of rampant change, which evokes a turn-of-the-century observation from the Tascosa (Texas) Pioneer: "Truly this is a world which has no regard...