Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gladstone was Chancellor of the Excequer. As Henry Adams, the precocious young son of the American Minister to London, put it, "If in the domain of the world's politics, one point was fixed, one value ascertained, one element serious, it was the British Exchequer, and if one man lived...
Wednesday, December 9 Lowell 15 Leverett 9 Adams 11 Eliot 6 Dunster 17 Dudley 10 Kirkland 9 Winthrop 7 (overtime game)
Won Lost Pct. Adams 3 0 1.000 Kirkland 3 0 1.000 Leverett 1 1 .500 Lowell 1 2 .333 Eliot 1 2 .333 Winthrop 1 2 .333 Dudley 1 2 .333 Dunster 0 2 .000
The Appleton chapel system controls all the clocks in the Yard. All the laboratories are regulated from the Geography Building. The Law School is taken care of from Langdell Hall, and Dunster, Lowell, Adams, Eliot, and Kirkland Houses are regulated from Lowell House.
Presumably Marian never read it, for she died in 1883, 35 years before her gifted, disappointed husband and 47 years before the publication of his letters. As he had destroyed in 1885 all that he could recover, as well as his diaries and notes, her collected correspondence, published last week...