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Time on the Cross addresses itself to these questions anyway, in one of its most important chapters, on the slave family. Fogel and Engerman maintain that slave families were strong, nuclear patriarchal families--just the reverse of the stereotype popularized by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, or the picture of uprooted slaves...
The son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister who had migrated from Poland, Jaworski was born in Waco, Texas. The family was poor; Jaworski, his two brothers and sister worked their way through Baylor University, where Leon earned a law degree in 1925. He became so skilled a courtroom lawyer that...
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It's one of Harvard's little idiosyncracies that stems from one of Harvard's eccentric donors. Harry Elkins Widner, a non-swimmer, was killed when the Titanic went down during its maiden voyage in 1912. In his memory, his mother erected a library--the major architectural monstrocity that stands...
The remaining flotsom was awarded many different prizes for behavior and looks. The Most Ostentatious award went to Eliot House's The Henry Elkins, designed as an oar-powered Mississippi steam boat. The Most Obscene and Most Polluted Crew awards went to the boat from Adams with a large banana...