Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is interesting to speculate on what Sam Adams would have to say at "town meeting" today, if he could return to Faneuil Hall to the celebration of his two-hundredth birthday. His remarks, it is safe to say, would be direct and would hit, what they were aiming at...
Adams left behind him the nickname of the "Great Incendiary", which has given him unjustly the reputation of a demagogue at best, if an inspired one. Governor Cox's term for him in his proclamation fits better,--a "Sentinel for Liberty". All through his life Adams kept his alertness and...
Adams was a great leader and an unselfish one, keeping himself in the background while moulding the public opinion of his time. It is a pity that the University should allow the bicentennial of one of the greatest of its graduates to pass without some active recognition.
The efforts of all latter-day Adams have similarly met with failure. Ganquin departed for the woods and became infamous. "Joe" Knowles, of recent fame,--he who wrote a vivid description of tackling a passing deer that would have turned Munchausen a sickly green,--returned, mosquito bitten, to get his...
On the surface, this appears unfair, just as it is hard not to feel a sneaking sentiment of sympathy for the Lucifer of "Paradise Lost". Rebels against the established order of things have from time immemorial found themselves butting a stone wall. And in the case of would-be Adams...