Word: buchananism
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Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, and Johnson did not go to college. Grant was educated at West Point, the two Adamses at Harvard; Jefferson, Munroe and Tyler, at William and Mary's College; Madison at Princeton, Polk at the University of North Carolina, Pierce at Bowdoin, Buchanan at Dickinson, Hayes at Kenyon College, Garfield at Williams, and Arthur at Union. Out of twenty-one, thirteen of our presidents received collegiate training...
Even excelling Longfellow's handwriting in beauty is a letter from Robt. Burns to the Earl of Buchanan, Jan. 7, 1794, containing the famous epic lines...
...Round Table contains a very pretty imitation of T. Buchanan Reed's "Bay of Naples," entitled "Moonlight Song." It is a relief to find so correct a piece of versification after reading the rough and unmusical verses which abound in most of the college papers...
...Beacon Cup was won by the Harvard six; President Eliot - then tutor - pulling No. 3, and Mr. Agassiz bow. This, I think, was the first time of Harvard's pulling a shell. She won in 19.22, beating several Boston crews, - the Fort Hill Boy (2d, in 21.20), the James Buchanan, Shamrock, Sterling, Thistle...