Word: solemnly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Great sympathy is due to the men who struck without realizing the seriousness of the offense. Yet there they broke a solemn oath to every citizen. Perhaps Commissioner Curtis showed a failing in diplomacy. Yet there is no diplomatic achievement on the side of the strikers. The principles for the which Mr. Curtis and Mr. Coolidge stand are good and have won the support they deserved...
...preparation now being made for various graduation festivities calls to mind the varied history of these exercises. The first Commencement was held in 1642, and the occasion shortly became an event of great moment. That the affair was properly solemn and sober may be judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled...
...worthy, would dare lay claim to such a solemn honor. All those who do, take upon themselves the holy vow to live "honoris causa...
...people of the United States purpose in city, state and nation to honor the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Congress will meet in joint session that day and by unanimous vote of both houses the eulogy on their behalf will be delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge. His selection for that solemn service has an appropriateness that the country was no less quick than the Congress to attest. The Governor of New York, Colonel Roosevelt's life long State, has set the example which other governors are following in rapid succession, the Governor of Rhode Island being the first...
...President Theodore Roosevelt '80 was buried in Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, yesterday afternoon. The flags of the nation were at half-mast in solemn remembrance of his loss as several hundred close friends gathered in the little Episcopal Church shortly after noon for the final service...