Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous dispute erupted with the dismissal of four instructors who taught the Feeney doctrine, from Boston College in 1949. Feeney was then chaplain at St. Benedict's Center, on Bow St., opposite Adams House...
Thomas A. Whedon '55 and John G. Benedict '54, who wrote the book, direct the production which goes on stage March 6 in Sanders Theatre. Only one performance will be given this year, instead of the previous...
Pageant & Comedy. Ward shines in historical set-pieces: the pageantry of Burgoyne surrendering to Gates, the high comedy of the Hessians caught drunk and disheveled the day after Christmas in Trenton, the heroism of Benedict Arnold's almost successful march on Quebec. Ward tells what the soldiers ate. how discipline was enforced, which side did the better scouting. Most of the time, he concludes, the British outgeneraled and outfought the Americans...
...stature and bravery, he indicts him for amateurish strategy throughout most of the war. British Commander Howe "outmaneuvered Washington repeatedly and won battle after battle"; with more boldness, he might have won the war. Only two American generals win Ward's unqualified approval as battle leaders: Benedict Arnold, who led troops with "headlong energy . . . intrepidity and dash," and Nathanael Greene, who showed himself a master of guerrilla tactics in the southern campaign after Horatio Gates proved a fiasco...
Endowed with what Miss Brigham called "out of this world qualities," the show was written by John G. Benedict '54 and Thomas A. Whedon '55, with lyrics by Robert S. Schwartz '54 and music by Harry F. Flynn...