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With attitudes like these prevailing, it is not surprising that the Boston intellectual community was willing to subscribe to a theory of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority. Henry Adams, John Fiske, and Henry Cabot Lodge all taught this doctrine at Harvard at one time or another, while Francis Amasa Walker held forth across the river at MIT. When Dr. Lodge left Harvard for a life in politics, he took his racial theories with him. It was with a firm basis in academic theory that the Immigration Restriction League began its existence...
...Among other events at Gibeon mentioned in the Bible: the siege by Amorite kings which was lifted by Joshua as the sun stood still and stones rained down on the fleeing besiegers (Joshua 10); the slaughter of Amasa by Joab (II Samuel 20); Solomon's dream of wisdom (I Kings...
...Amasa B. Ford and Herman K. Hellerstein of Cleveland's Western Reserve University noted that by far the most strenuous of all human activity is "play" -carried to the extreme of championship athletics. When energy expenditure is measured by the rate of calorie consumption, a distance runner or skier can burn up 26.5 calories per minute; healthy young men at amateur sports can work up to a fuel consumption of 18 calories per minute. The heaviest rates for steady work have been reported for coal miners as ranging from 4.3 to 5 calories per minute...
...fleeting friendliness reminded New York Timesman Arthur Krock of II Samuel 20:9-10, describing the meeting of Joab and Amasa at the great stone of Gibeon: "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he [Joab] smote him therewith in the fifth...
...Institute boys claim to have boycotted a young instructor who had turned out to be a Harvard A.B. Every student organization joins in propaganda for the one-way scrap; popular professors begin their courses with a stock Harvard joke; and the Freshman banquet gives rousing cheers for patriot Thomas Amasa Walker, "the guy that kept us from joining up with Harvard...