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[[strikethrough]] 50 [[/strikethrough]] 50/ Excellent wine and [[red underlined ]] interesting conversation. [[/red underlined]] Was 10:30 P.M when was back at hotel and [[red underlined]] still bright. [[/red underlined]] After this interesting evening had little sleep after so many pleasant things. [[red underlined]] Sir Thomas is a fine old gentleman [[/red underlined]] and very friendly to his hosts. [[underlined]] July 2. Friday. This [[/underlined]] [[red and black underlined]] is the great day![[/red and black underlined]] of [[red underlined]] Honorary Degree [[/red underlined]] LL.D confered by Edinburgh U. 9:15 A.M. Kendall came to fetch me and Celine with his wife. 10. A.M. University Assembly [[vertical notation in red and underlined in left margin]] Honorary degree! [[/left margin]] [[strikethrough]] 2 P.M. Luncheon 2 [[/strikethrough]] 1:30 P.M. Luncheon in the "Union Bdg) 3:30 P.M. Garden Party in George Sq. 9 to 11 P.M Reception at Upper Library, Old College to meet honorary graduates by Vice Chancellor & Lady Holland. He was the man who "capped" me with the [[red underlined]] cap of John Knox [[/red underlined]] this morning at the Ceremony. [[vertical notation in red and underlined in left margin]] The Cap of John Knox! [[/left margin]] Certainly a busy day to all of us but we stood it well. A marvelous collection of old paintings in the Upper Library and well kept. All this in one of the very old University Buildings. Red gown & blue [[blank space]] and black square flat soft cap were handed to us of the procession before we took our seats, front row. Because the spelling of my name beginning with B.A. I [[red underlined]] was first; Sir William Bragg [[/red underlined]] (Nobel Prize) rector of Cambridge U. Coming next, also Dr. [[red underlined]] Nicholas Murray Butler [[/red underlined]] (absent on account of health etc. See booklet of the Ceremonies. [[red underlined]] Celine directly in front row before [[/red underlined]] me facing me and the faculty. [[strikethrough]] Room [[/strikethrough]] Enormous room filled to the limit by men of the staff, students and [[end page]] [[start page]] 51) their families. [[vertical notation in red and underlined in left margin]] My career! [[/left margin]] Professor [[red underlined]] James Mackintosh [[/red underlined]] Dean of the Faculty of Law made the addresses [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] describing the work of the [[red underlined]] Honorary L.L.D. [[/red underlined]][[strikethrough]] When [[/strikethrough]] See the report of [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] the Edinburgh newspaper: "The Scotsman" Saturday July 3 - 1937. When he referred to [[red underlined]] my studies in Ghent [[/red underlined]] I having won his doctorate in Chemistry and the hand of his [[red underlined]] Professor's daughter [[/red underlined]] emigrated to American, where he engaged in chemical research ....etc. [[strikethrough]] and the [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] the audience which until then had kept absolutely silent, roared and applauded loudly, the students finding probably that this was [[/red underlined]] a good prescription for their own future [[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Sir William Brag. [[/left margin]] After me came [[red underlined]] Sir William Bragg [[/red underlined]] President of the Royal Society and head of Cambridge University: Next [[red underlined]] Thomas Stearns Eliot [[/red underlined]] Then Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson. [[red underlined]] Rector [[/red underlined]] of the University of [[red underlined]] Edinburgh [[/red underlined]]. -- Then André Honorat, Senator of France formerly Minister of Education and of Fine Arts; President of La Cité Universitaire - Paris. Then Lady Leslie Mackenzie C.B.F and P.E.I.S. Social reformer Alexander Morgan O.B.E. M.A. D.Sc F.R.S.E. - The Professor Emeritus William Paterson Paterson. M.A. D.D. L.L.D. - The Honorable Walter George Hepburne Scott, Baron Howarth C.BE. V.D D.L.; Convenor of East Lothian County Council x [[red underlined]] Nicholas Murray Butler [[/red underlined]] President of Columbia University U.S.A. in absentia. -- The Right Honorable Sir George Claus Rankin M.A. formerly Chief Justice of Bengal: member H.M. Privy Council
