Word: benjamin
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...Paris fireworks lit the sky, and the people sang "Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre," for ships had brought news of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. From Nice Lord Cholmondeley hastened to pay his respects to Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and Fox's ill-fated ministry swiftly dispatched ambassadors to treat with the philosopher. Jay arrived, and John Adams, and from London came Richard Oswald, a merchant whom Shelbourne considered sufficiently canny to deal successfully with the Yankees. The stage was set for great deeds. For reasons personal or traditional the gulf between Dr. Franklin, Mr. Adams...
...Benjamin Franklin is still a canonical name in U. S. history despite modern knowledge of the ins & outs of the Doctor's private life. But many a devout patriot may be dismayed by French Professor Faÿ's sympathetic disclosure of the public goings-on of Franklin's favorite (legitimate) grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache. Few U. S. schoolboys have ever heard of Benny Bache, whom Biographer Faÿ describes as "the most outspoken, the most reckless, the most generous, and the most neglected" figure of his day. In this authoritative but racily written biography Author...
Opening the exercises, President Conant will call upon Dean Sperry to offer a prayer. The President will then deliver a short introductory address, in which he will mention the Medical School and the first two professors, Dr. John Warren and Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, whose inaugural addresses will thereafter be recited...
...celebration commemorates the opening of the school on October 7, 1783. At that time, John Warren and Benjamin Waterhouse were inducted into office as professors of the Harvard Medical School...
From the humble beginnings of John Warren and Benjamin Waterhouse, one hundred and fifty years ago today, the Harvard Medical School has developed, in close step with the profession it perpetuates, into an institution whose direct services to mankind are among the chief glories of the University. Just as it has given its knowledge and facilities to Boston, so have its graduates applied its teachings in nation-wide practice, its spirit in epoch-making discoveries...