Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night the alumni will take over Symphony Hall for a special concert of the Boston Pops...
...quaint language of this citation graces the first of the 1750 Harvard honorary degrees awarded since the days of President Increase Mather. Since 1692, the College has given special awards--M.A., S.T.D., LL.D., M.D., D.M.D., S.D., Art D Litt. D., Mus. D., and D.H.L.--to outstanding men and, since 1955, to women also. The honorary degree thus ranks as one of Harvard's longest-standing traditions--one that arouses the most national interest of any Commencement exercise in the country...
Despite, or perhaps on account of the long history of honorary degrees at Harvard, there is no real agreement on the first recipient of a special award. Intellectual historians point to Nathaniel Appleton, a Cambridge minister who received the S.T.D. in 1771, as the first undisputed honorary doctor. They eliminate seventeenth-century tutors William Brattle and John Leverett, for they were required to prepare a "Theological" dissertation; President Mather received his award to enhance his position atop the Harvard hierarchy...
...Special Assistant Klein's first big assignment will be to handle the Vice President's news chores on the July good-will trip to Moscow. From then on he will be Nixon's press secretary through the 1960 campaign.* And if 1960 should be Richard Nixon's year, Herb Klein might well be expected to move on to the White House as the successor to Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty...
...Women's Archives is a special library of documents dealing with women's contributions to American history...