Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Virginia has never conferred an honorary degree upon anyone in its entire history. The statement, therefore, that a degree of LL. D. from the University of Virginia has been conferred upon the Hon. Herbert Hoover, is an error...
...believe that the University of Virginia is unique in this particular among American colleges and universities...
...juxtaposition of your very interesting article on President E. A. Alderman of the University of Virginia and the list of "famed" personages given honorary degrees by other institutions of learning (TIME, June 18) is a striking coincidence. In an article in The American Mercury last winter, the statement was made that the Secretary of Commerce had received an LL. D. from the University of Virginia. In response to a request for verification of this statement, I received the following letter from President Alderman...
Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...
Married. C. Shelby Carter, descendant of King Carter, first governor of colonial Virginia, great-great-grandson of Col. Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky and hero of King's Mountain Battle; to Mary Spingler King, scioness of the Van Beuren family; at Convent...