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...Voted. 2. That Mr. Jno Leverett and Mr. Wm Brattle be by ye President admitted ad gradum Baccalaureatus in Theologia, they first making each of them a Sermon in Latin in ye College Hall & responding to a Theological Question...
...when Harvard adopted the custom of granting on the application of graduates of other colleges the same degree they had received from their own Alma Mater, and such applicants made up most of the recipients of honorary Harvard degrees for almost a century. This list of honorary degrees granted ad eundem gradum includes the names of many notable persons, but the College authorities gradually came to the conclusion that the practice was not a worthy one and it was abandoned early in the nineteenth century. From 1724 until 1753 all of the honorary degrees bestowed in Cambridge were ad eundem...
...March 10, 1914 one May Richardson, famed militant suffraget, strode masterfully into the National Gallery, ad- vanced grimly upon a beautiful Venus by Velasquez. It was known as the Rokeby Venus because it had hung for generations in Rokeby Hall, Yorkshire, was purchased by the nation in 1905 for $225,000. March 1914 was the height of the suffraget agitation in Britain: ladies were chaining themselves to the railings of the Houses of Parliament, shouting themselves hoarse on street corners, smashing windows on Bond Street. Suffraget May Richardson had already distinguished herself by setting fire to the Countess of Carlisle...
...depends on the discrimination of the compiler and his sense of what selections should be juxtaposed. The modern fad of the amusingly incongruous is exemplified by such mixtures as the "Weekend Book" where selections are grouped in compartments such as Great Poems, Hate Poems, State Poems, and so on ad absurdum. In the "Winter Miscellany" however Humbert Wolfe restrains himself to selections on the subject of winter and the result is a consistently pleasing volume whose charm lies in its maintenance of the wintry mood...
...Ad Fidcles Universes (To All the Faithful) : "Our heart is opened to you all. . . . Like the first believers, men and women, whom the Apostle for that reason praises, you are God's people and the sheep of His fold. You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy family...