Word: gibbon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Father W. J. Kenealy, director of the Fulton Debating Society of Boston College, and Professor M. C. Fuller, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will act as judges, the third vote to be rendered by the audience. James V. Gibbon former coach of the Boston University debating team, will preside...
...belong on the main road. The scholars, the artists, the artisans, and the adventurers do not. They are a small minority, but they are a very important minority. I appeal for them because it is more important to our civilization that one potential artist like Shelley, one scholar like Gibbon, one artisan like Edison, one adventurer like Lindbergh, be kept out of college than that a thousand more incipient junior executives, Ph.D. candidates, and museum curators...
...Gibbon and Other Historians", Professor Greenough, Sever...
...February 6 issue of TIME contains a letter from a student at Tufts College stating that a professor in a literature class had compared the style of certain articles in TIME to that of Gibbon...
...matter of fact, the professor compared the style of the articles in question not to that of Gibbon, but to that of Carlyle in parts of his "French Revolution...