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After receiving an honorary degree yesterday from York University, John Yolton, acting president of York, is helped into his robes by Chancellor Walte(...)
After receiving an honorary degree yesterday from York University, John Yolton, acting president of York, is helped into his robes by Chancellor Walte(...)

After receiving an honorary degree yesterday from York University, John Yolton, acting president of York, is helped into his robes by Chancellor Walte(...)

Date6/26/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: After receiving an honorary degree yesterday from York University, John Yolton, acting president of York, is helped into his robes by Chancellor Walter Gordon. Yolton said Glendon College might be moved to main campus.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0090359F
Calm and Statuesque in her robes, actress Kate Reid stands to receive her honorary degree as doctor of letters from York University. Miss Reid is the (...)
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Wearing Robes as newly installed chancellor of York University is former Ontario premier John Robarts
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