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Each year at this time, Sir Geoffrey Gabb, George III professor of history at Cornwallis University, lectures his freshman students on a little-known but decisive episode in American history. Last week marked the 200th anniversary of that event. To commemorate the occasion TIME went to Cornwallis to record Sir Geoffrey's idiosyncratic and provocative comments...
...200th birthday, Exeter is still excelling...
...looks like a small college. And with its 93 buildings, its $47 million endowment and its 108,000-volume library, the institution on tree-lined Front Street in rural Exeter, N.H., is better equipped and endowed than many colleges. But Phillips Exeter Academy, which celebrates its 200th birthday this year, is only a prep school -though perhaps the best in the country. Its list of illustrious alumni is imposing. Among them: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Jay Rockefeller, Robert Benchley, Daniel Webster and Franklin Pierce. Equally imposing are the school's fees: $6,100 annually for tuition, room and board, paid...
Lots of them. Earlier this season, in only his 244th game, Bossy scored the 200th goal of his career. Thus in slightly more than three years in the N.H.L., Bossy has reached a scoring plateau attained by only 123 players. His closest challenger, Richard, required 336 games to reach 200 goals. This month Bossy set an N.H.L. record for hat tricks (three goals or more in a game) in a single season, with eight. In his first 49 games this year, Bossy poured in 48 goals, the hottest scoring pace since Richard's 1945 mark of 50 goals...
...Science in Los Angeles came upon a cluster of eight fantastic gilded angels, each 28 ft. tall and cunningly wrought out of glass, steel, bits of tapestry and even animal bones. The angels, created by Sculptor Tony Duquette and illuminated by hundreds of flickering votive candles, helped commemorate the 200th anniversary of the City of Angels...