Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-I wonder how many of those who sat in the House of Representatives Saturday afternoon perceived the mistake that was made. After Congressman Long had read Mr. Winthrop's oration, the southern orator, Hon. John M. Daniel arose and delivered...
...Daniel Pratt having returned from his two weeks vacation, which he has been spending at Deer Island at the expense of the city of Boston, delivered his first lecture of the second half year in the transept of Memorial Hall, yesterday...
...Daniel Webster was taught the letters of the alphabet by his mother and it is said that, when he had attained his tenth year she prophecied that he would become eminent. The first school house Webster ever entered was built of logs, and his first teacher was William Hoyt. The first time that the great statesman ever saw the Constitution of the United States, it was printed upon a cotton handkerchief, according to a fashion of the time, which he chanced to stumble upon in a country store. The evening of the day on which he thus obtained a copy...
...foot to the extreme head of the class, exclaiming that this was his proper place. This success encouraged denial, and he renewed his efforts. At the end of the second quarter, the class was again mustered, and Mr. Emery stood before it, when, after a deep silence, he said: "Daniel Webster gather up your books, and take down your cap." As the boy tremblingly bayed, the teacher added, "Now, sir, you will report to the teacher of the first! And you, young gentlemen, will take an affectionate leave of your classmate, for you will never see him again...
Webster was only a few months in preparing for college, and during that brief period he commenced and mastered the study of Greek, so that his tutor was won't to remark that other boys required a year to accomplish the same end. Of all his father's children, Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader...