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...most flavorsome alterations between the University and somebody in the State House occurred June 1883, when the Board of Overseers voted 15 to 12 not to grant Governor Benjamin Butler an honorary degree because his character was not consistent with the motto "Verities." In so doing, the Board of Overseers had overruled the recommendations of President Eliot and the Corporation, who foresaw the unpleasant political implications of breaking the custom of giving the governor an honorary...
Baker, William Whitney, Jr. '50, Barwise, Richard Grant '51, Berman, Ronald Stanley '50, Cairns, David Drew '52, Carter, David Ridgely '50, Durakis, Charles Anthony '52, Geick, Harold William '52, Grutzner, Edward Ehlers '52, Keith, Charles Clarke, Jr. '51, Lockett, Andrew Moore, 3d '50, McCormick, Patrick Benjamin Michael '50, McGrath, Thomas Joseph '52, Ravreby, Fred, Aaron '52, Rubin, Richard Herschel '52, Stromsted, Erik Arnold '51, Thayer, Harvey Hill '50, Tootell, Geoffrey Howland '48 (Captain), Trimble, Donald Edward '50, Tsavaris, Louis John '51, Wilson, Niram Allen, Jr. '51, Moore, John Lowell, Jr. '51 (Manager...
...popularly known as the Feinberg Law, and is named after Benjamin F. Feinberg, former majority leader of the State Senate, who introduced the measure on March 10, 1949. The bill was supposed to enforce Section 12-a of the New York Civil Service Law, which prohibited employment in public services of persons preaching forceful overthrow of persons preaching forceful overthrow of the government...
When Ronnie came to the Philippines in 1949 as a U.S. Army private, he expected to find life there exciting. He was bored by his duties as a clerk with the 29th Topographical Engineer Battalion at the U.S. Army base in Cavite. Last October Ronnie Dorsey and Benjamin Advincula, a Spanish-Filipino employee of the U.S. Navy, lit out for the local headquarters of the rebel Huks...
Colonel to Private. Two weeks ago Ronnie Dorsey and Benjamin Advincula lit out again, this time to surrender. To Philippine army intelligence, Ronnie gave a roster of the men and officers in his Huk group, tips on the location of Huk hideouts. In Dorsey's testimony that the Huks' troubles were increasing, the harassed government of President Elpidio Quirino saw excellent propaganda for use against its critics...