Word: givenly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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After these degrees have been given, the President confers the degrees out of course and the various honorary degrees...
...dinner given by a group of Chinese dignitaries in honor of an American, the foreigner, through no fault of the Eighteenth Amendment, but rather of a very highly polished chair, slipped from his seat and disappeared under the table. His embarrassment was somewhat palliated by the grave courteny of his hosts; one by one, in turn, each of the Orientals slid from his chair under the table, so as to make the visitor feel quite at home...
...given very liberal restrictions when off duty. A plentiful supply of athletic equipment has been issued, and many baseball diamonds, tennis courts and playing fields are available for the students...
...that those who saw in it only a war of rebellion saw also an opportunity for the exploitation of the commercial advantages offered by the succeeding conditions. Small wonder that other nations became established in their conviction that we were a commercial and soulless people worshipping the dollar and given over wholly to the material! But then came the War, and the call to the idealism of the American people, and the instant response...
President Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to the Harvard class of 1920, given in Appleton Chapel at 4 P. M. on Sunday was on the subject of "Jonah...