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...with the final chapel exercises of the Amherst College seniors was the formal announcement of the election of President Meiklejohn as an honorary member of the class in view of the fact that the president and the seniors began their connection with the college at the same time. In token of his acceptance of the honorary membership conferred upon him by the class, the President doffed his doctor of laws regalia, was escorted to a place among the seniors in the front row and at the conclusion of the exercises marched out between the class marshal and class president...
...original manuscripts of famous books, they gave him the best they had saved from the printer and furnace-man. Lowell sent him the Second Series of the 'Bigelow Papers,' 'as a trifling acknowledgment of many substantial obligations,' and Holmes inscribed the manuscript of 'The Guardian Angel' as 'A token of kind regard from one of many writers who have found him a wise, faithful and generous friend...
...been sent from New Haven to Boston with a silver cup, engraved "From Yale '89 to Harvard '89," and he certainly took the Harvard men by surprise. They couldn't get over the fact that he had come all the way from New Haven, and with such a token; and when he finished his speech of presentation they finished his speech of presentation they fairly outdid themselves in ovations to old Yale. They even tried to sing the Yale songs, with what success I am not informed. But every man of that class carried away a new opinion of what...
...last issue of the Lampoon appears a page of comic drawings entitled "Why Not Have an Iron Cross Too?" by which the famous token of bravery is frivolously placed (thoughtlessly without doubt), in a ridiculous light...
...graduates of the University in and around Boston gave the victorious football team a large dinner at the Copley-Plaza last night as a token of their appreciation of the team's successful season. It was impossible to show the motion pictures as planned on account of a fire ordinance, but the stereopticon views were not omitted. The other entertainments were as diverse as they were interesting...