The Henson Journals
Tue 2 February 1915
Volume 20, Page 139
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 1915.
183rd day
I read McKecknie's "Magna Carta" – a learned but technical book. After lunch I attended the meeting of Senate at the Castle. The question of conferring Honorary Degrees was deferred. There seemed some notion that decency required an abstinence from such honorific performances during the war.