Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Eliot received the Order of the Rising Sun from Baron Takahira. The presentation of the decoration was made privately, only a few friends being present. As the President entered the room, the Japanese envoy made the following speech, which President Eliot read at the dinner: "The Emperor, my august sovereign, fully appreciative of the great services you have rendered for the welfare of human life as one of the foremost educators of the age, and for the making of many useful men of Japan who have come here to study at Harvard University during the forty years of your presidency...
...exceptions and caprice, than in the rigid formulation of life. Mr. Berenson belongs to the former class, and it is wonderful that a mind so acutely intellectual as his should choose for its special province the Fine Arts--the domain, that is, where Beauty and not Knowledge is sovereign. But although his forte is intellectual, Mr. Berenson succeeds in interpreting much of the sensuous charm of painting...
...Ryder '06; "A Tale That is Told," by L. B. Hall '05; "Consummation," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; Mr. Kipling's Latest," by G. E. Fuller '05; "The Voyagers," by H. A. Bellows '06; "April," by H. H. S. H.; "The Elective System," by T. H. T.; "The Sovereign Spoiler," by S. Hale '05; "The Mermaid," by E. Royce '07; editorials and book notices...
...Monthly for March contains the following articles: "The Game of Football," by T. D. Sloan '06: "Objections to Football-from the President's Report": "The Shepherd of his People," by W. R. Nelles '05; "The Spirit of Silence," by H. Hagedorn '07: "The Sovereign Alchemist." by J. L. Price '07: "Whom the Fates Demand," by Van W. Brooks '08; "Old Sauchez' Consent," P. P. Crosbie '05: "Silence," by J. H. Wheclock '08; "At the Last Milestone," by T. L. McShaun; editorials and book-notices...
...justice, the bestowal of knight-hood, and other important functions, all carried out with unusual magnificence. The visits of foreign potentates, especially, were made the occasion of displays which had never before been equalled. All these exhibitions of power caused in the people an almost idolatrous worship of their sovereign, and marvellous powers were attributed to him. People flocked from all parts of the world to be cured of diseases by his touch...