Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1800, when Dr. Benjamin Rush began his autobiography, he was 54, America's foremost physician, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and an intimate of many of the great and near great of his day. He called his autobiography Travels Through Life, and began it this...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN RUSH (399 pp.)-Edifed by George W. Corner-Princeton...
Courts & Prisons. Rush may have had engaging qualities; his humorless autobiography fails to disclose them. Yet, visiting Europe, he called on great men who not only made him welcome but asked him to come again. Benjamin Franklin, then in London, took him to the court of George III, introduced him to his literary friends, and lent him money. Rush dined with Artist Sir Joshua Reynolds, Novelist Oliver Goldsmith ("He spoke with the Irish accent"), and crotchety Literary Czar Samuel Johnson, who reports Dr. Rush was rude to Goldsmith. Rush even got himself invited as a dinner guest of famed Political...
Faculty division--Professor Smith, chairman; F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature; Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government; Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology; Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics, and Professor Finch...
...dance committee, which has already sponsored affairs after the Dartmouth and Princeton games, has been divided into three groups. Freshmen in charge of publicity include John Smith, Alan Burke, David Auerbach, Albert Hart, Richard Heffron, Benjamin Balkind, Thomas Bergen, Alfred Baum, and Edgar Wilford...