Word: tudors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party scene in the movie Advise and Consent); Dumbarton Oaks, a Georgetown estate where the conference that hatched the United Nations was held; Octagon House, a Georgian-style Washington landmark on New York Avenue; Hitt House, the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization; and Bonnie Brae, a barnlike Tudor house of fieldstone and brick...
...Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon of Her Majesty's Body Guard followed by the Queen's Bodyguard in scarlet Tudor tunics. To a final blast from the silver trumpets, Queen Elizabeth herself entered in gold coat and matching feathered toque...
...first Commencement, members of the graduating class will deliver orations in Latin and English; the President, seated in his ancient Tudor chair, will admit Bachelors to the "fellowship of educated men," and recipients of doctoral degrees to the "ancient and universal company of scholars." Honorary degrees, like that first one conferred on George Washington will be given to those distinguished few who have done something for Harvard in specific or humanity in general. With each honorary degree, the President will pronounce a short testimonial, composed in a flowery language reminiscent of the eighteenth century...
...will teach in Humanities 3, the college's first credit course involving play introduction. Participation in a Loeb main play will be a course requirement, will also teach English 125, "Tudor Stuart Drama...
Wilbur K. Jordan has been named Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, it was announced yesterday. Jordan, who was president of Radcliffe from 1943 to 1960, is an expert in the Tudor-Stuart period of English history. He replaces William Y. Elliot who left Harvard in 1963 to join the faculty of American University...