Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Dean's Office believes too many freshmen's eyes popped during last year's campaigning, a committee of freshmen has been formed to rule on practices. Chairman Charles Cabot, Benjamin McDonald, and Charles Peterson must judge all posters and stunts. No "overt sex" is allowed...
...dear God, please bless the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Girard Trust Co., and the Republican Party." Thus, says Author Struthers Burt, the children of Philadelphia's rich once closed their bedtime prayers. Ever since ex-Mayor Benjamin W. Richards helped found the Girard in 1835 (naming it after Philanthropist Stephen Girard), the bank has been one of Philadelphia's strongest pillars of good business and decorum. It was the first trust company in its district to join the Federal Reserve System; it thought it should, "from the standpoint of patriotism." In its vaults lie the securities that make...
Someone once remarked that "there are more people buried in Old Granary who are known to more people than are buried in any other cemetery in the country," and he was probably right. Visitors are often disappointed that the conspicuous granite obelisk bearing the name "Franklin" is Benjamin Franklin's parents, not himself; but there is ample compensation for Ben's absence. Around the Franklin memorial are scattered the graves of such patriots as Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, and James Otis, as well as ten early Massachusetts governors and the victims of the Boston Massacre...
...other less illustrious but equally interesting personages in Old Granary: Elisha Brown, for instance, who in 1769 barricaded himself in his home and for 17 days successfully "oppofed a whole Britifh Regt. in their violent attempt to FORCE him from hif legal habitation." And there is the tomb of Benjamin Woodbridge, who died in the first duel fought in Boston, after quarreling with his friend over a game of cards. The friend skipped the country in a British vessel and died of grief in France...
Perhaps he was a flattering listener. His curiosity was insatiable, and the commonplace books are filled with all sorts of trivia picked up from travelers. Sometimes he merely recorded little but the subjects of his chats: 1786, Sept. 23: conversation with Dr. Benjamin Franklin about the plague in Turkey; 1791, Oct. 8: Mr. Stewart about the horrors of the Hindu religion and the manners of Laplanders...