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...were illustrious for their historic renown." Since then 35 states have made contributions to Statuary Hall. A few of the figures are known to every schoolboy (Washington and Lee from Virginia; Daniel Webster from New Hampshire; Andrew Jackson from Tennessee; Samuel Adams and John Winthrop from Massachusetts; John C. Calhoun from South Carolina; Sam Houston from Texas). Most of them, though, are second-rate politicians of the last century whose fame has already faded out of history. A few are local heroes so obscure and forgotten as to cause derisive mirth among Capitol sightseers. Such a one is the statue...
...Fawcett '38, (6 yds.); second, G. Hay '38, (4 yds.). Time--11 2-5 sees. Third heat--Won by W. H. Schmidt '37, (scratch); second, J. C. Dounelly '39, (4 yds.). Time--11 2-5 sees. Fourth heat--Won by R. S. Brookings 1L., (4 yds.); second, T. H. Calhoun '39, (5 yds.). Time--12 sees. Fifth heat--Won by D. P. Coffin '38, (5 yds.), second, F. Garrison '37, (6 yds.). Time--12 sees
...members of the Jubilee Committee, besides Harvin, are: Oliver Bolton, Kenneth Booth, Robert Brewer, Robert M. Bunker, Thomas N. Calhoun, Richard D. Dyer, Robert Gannett, Charles Houghton, Chandler Hevey, and Charles A. Meyer...
First proposed by Leland Stanford in 1867, possibility of a bridge from San Francisco to Oakland was pooh-poohed for two generations. In 1929 President Hoover, whose Palo Alto home is in the Bay neighborhood, and California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young formed a bridge commission. The commission decided the bridge was physically possible. Reconstruction Finance Corp. made it financially so with a loan of $61,400,000. In July 1933, work began...
...John Calhoun Baker has resigned as Assistant Dean and Instructor in Finance at the Harvard Business School, and has been appointed Associate Director of Business Research at the School for three years, from February...