Word: commoner
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After Mr. Meyer was graduated from Harvard in 1879, he entered the mercantile business in Boston. In 1889, he became a member of the Boston Common Council and later served on the Board of Aldermen. From 1892 to 1896 he was in the Massachusetts legislature; during the last two years he presided as Speaker of the House. Four years later Mr. Meyer was appointed American ambassador to Italy, a post which he filled until 1905. In that year, he became ambassador to Russia, and occupied the position till 1907, when he was recalled to become postmaster general in President Roosevelt...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "The Ems Telegram." Professor H. S. White. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "The Ems Telegram." Professor H. S. White. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...Meyer was graduated from Harvard in 1879 and entered the mercantile business. He served on the Boston Common Council and on the Board of Aldermen and was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1894-96. In 1900, Mr. Meyer was appointed ambassador to Italy, where he remained until 1905, in which year he was transferred to St. Petersburg as ambassador to Russia. He was recalled in 1907 in order to become a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, as postmaster general...
...only the contemporary, the companion of those great men; he was their fellow citizen in those highest things in which we may be his if we will, for the hospitality of his welcome will not be wanting. Something Athenian, something Florentine, something essentially republican and democratic in the ideals common to them all has had its especial effect in him through that temperamental beneficence, that philanthropy in a peculiar sense, so characteristic of him. I suppose he never met any man without wishing to share with him the grace of his learning, the charm of his wisdom, the light...