Word: asa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early Methodist bishop, it was horn a country college in Oxford, Ga., had a heady rebirth in 1915 after the Methodist Church divorced Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Having dumped Vandy, the Methodists launched two new universities-Emory and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Atlanta's Coca-Cola King Asa G. Candler gave land and $1,000,000-leading to a short-lived suggestion that Emory be renamed for Thomas Coke, another early bishop. Thus lured to Atlanta, Emory still drinks from the same bottle. Coca-Cola money accounts for about half its $70 million assets, and the current Coke...
...affiliated with it, if by nothing more then geography, was an outstanding array of gifted and vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive and of fickle academic tastes...
...Behold Asa the Scribe hath risen up against us, & the Sons of Harvard have hissed & clapped in Derision...
...therefore let us punish Asa the Scribe, & make him confess before all Harvard...
...Then was the Wrath of the sons of Harvard kindled within them and they gathered themselves together and went to the House of Edward the Chief Ruler, and said, we will not confess, and if our Rulers shall punish Asa we will depart everyone to his own Home and leave the Rulers to the Meditation out of their own hearts...