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...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, but in the latter year Benjamin Franklin received the degree of A.M., not because of an earlier connection with another college but because of his distinguished career...
Divorced. Socialite & Clubman Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr.; by multimillionairess Mary Duke Biddle, daughter of the late tobacco tycoon, Benjamin Newton Duke; secretly; at Newburgh, N. Y. Corespondent: an unnamed Berlin woman. Mrs. Biddle made a gala of the occasion, led a motorcade of friends to the court...
...well. Unfortunate was the bucket-shopping of Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, May 26 et seq.) But remarkable were the financial coups of Brigham Young who took unto himself the great monopolies of the Desert, tolls on gates and roads, timber rights. The late Benjamin ("King") Purnell of the House of David, at Benton Harbor, Mich, across Lake Michigan from Zion City, took unto himself and his Queen Mary the rights to some $1,000,000 worth of his followers' properties until 1927 when he was ignominiously banished from his throne and his belongings...
Jubilee Committee--Paul DeB. deGive '34, chairman; W. D. Robbins '34, sub-chairman; Nelson Aldrich '34, Benjamin Beale '34, J. H. Choate III '34, A. W. Cook '34, W. L. Hasler '34, Willfam Ladd '34, A. A. Lawrence '34, C. G. Mixter '34, C. A. Pescosolido '34, Kent Sanger '34, Richard Walcott '34, John Ware '34, Nathaniel Ware '34, A. L. Weatherby '34, J. B. White '34, Stanton Whitney '34, T. B. Williams...
Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Sankey, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, W. A. Jowett, Attorney General of Great Britain, Benjamin N. Cordoza, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Frederick Pollock, eminent English jurist and historian all acclaim Holmes in words of glowing praise. Hughes, in presenting an intimate picture of Holmes in his work on the Supreme Court says: "In the performance of his official duties, he is not simply conscientious, but astounding in his method, by which he seems to inflict upon himself cruel and unusual punishment." Sankey...