Word: mortarboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women, many of them long unaccustomed to the swish of academic robes around their legs, have been marching in mortarboard caps at commencement exercises of U. S. colleges and universities. They are the recipients of honorary degrees-kudos conferred because of their position, service to humanity, or wealth...
Last week another President, Calvin Coolidge, clad in black academy robes and mortarboard cap with gold tassel, stood before a microphone on the Georgian portico of Samuel Phillips Hall to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Phillips Academy. Mrs. Coolidge was sitting behind him, moved not so much by what he was saying as by a hymn she had just heard. It was her favorite Jesus I Love Thee and also the hymn of Mercersburg Academy, where her son Calvin Jr. schooled before his death in 1924. It was sung by nearly a thousand Andover students, and Mrs. Coolidge added...
...women, many of them long unaccustomed to the swish of academic robes around their legs, have been marching in mortarboard caps and silken gowns at recent commencement exercises of U. S. colleges and universities. They were the recipients of honorary degrees-kudos conferred because of their wealth, position or service to humanity. Below will be found the names of a number of the distinguished personages so honored during May and June, 1927. It is not necessarily implied that either the institutions or the individuals listed are the "most distinguished...