Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degrees awarded were given as Honorary degrees, and of these, eight were given to men who already hold degrees from the University. Charles Francis Dorr Belden '95, Librarian of the Boston Public Library, and Frederick Summer Mead '87, former Comptroller of the University, were awarded honorary degrees of Master of Arts. The Degree of Doctor of Laws was awarded to six men, Joseph Lee '83, philanthropist and social service worker, George Gray Sears '85, physician, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, lawyer and international economist, John Hansen Thomas Main, President of Grinnel College, George Fisher Baker '99, financier, and Andrew William Mellon...
...easy to understand the furor among the anti-Christian students in China. But, as a matter of fact, these aforesaid students do not represent the attitude of the best Chinese. For their priests and temple officials are almost universally gracious and hospitable toward Christianity, and most of our summer student conferences are held in Buddhist and Confucian temples. I could pray that some of our learned Christian leaders might have more of the spirit of Christ and of the Gautama?might have more faith in God, and not be so fearful of their little brand of religion being overturned...
...studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with his velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which she had made her first successful London appearance with Jean de Reszke her Romeo, his brother Edouard the Friar. And there was Otello, fruit of Verdi's Indian-summer genius. She had sung Otello for the Master himself, an old man then like a gnarled tree, kindly, restrained, with bright, bright eyes and restless hands. Yes, it was a finicky business, that of choosing the opera. Perhaps a bit from all three...
...told, the book is rather a mediocre feat for the celebrated scorner of average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes. The flaying of E. Wesson Woodbury may spoil a great many people's summer vacations, but far more malice could have been wrought, and more sales made, if the ending had not been so tediously dragged out. After paddling far up the stream of U. S. literature, Mr. Lewis has idly turned his canoe and shot some unexciting rapids...
...brothers Roosevelt (Theodore, Kermit) collected, as everyone knows, specimens of Ovis poli on the Pamir Plateau last summer (TIME, Oct. 12, SCIENCE...