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Emeritus (/ ə ˈ m ɛr ɪ t ə s /; female version: emerita) [Note 1] is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
Henry M. Robert. A U.S. Army officer, Henry Martyn Robert (1837–1923), saw a need for a standard of parliamentary procedure while living in San Francisco.He found San Francisco in the mid-to-late 19th century to be a chaotic place where meetings of any kind tended to be tumultuous, with little consistency of procedure and with people of many nationalities and traditions thrown together.
Howard University President Emeritus H. Patrick Swygert joins the On the Move panel to discuss. There's a 'palpable sense of excitement' for Kamala Harris pick as VP: Howard University President ...
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden hailed former President Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39 th president, as "a practitioner of good works" in a eulogy delivered on the final day of the state funeral ...
“I’m talking about 142 people turning me down when we were raising money in the mid-1980s,” he said. “They thought, we can’t raise the capital, things are not working out, [you should ...
Similarly, a jure dignitatis degree is awarded to someone who has demonstrated eminence and scholarship by being appointed to a particular office. Thus, for example, a DD (Doctor of Divinity) might be conferred upon a bishop on the occasion of his consecration, or a judge created LLD (Legum Doctor) or DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) upon his or her ...
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