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...upon us in America, and it should be with a sense of expectation rather than dread that we greet them. I will argue further that properly used, this could be a time of great expectation. Some years ago the French Dominican, Father Bruckberger declared in the sensitive translation of Gouveneur Paulding that, "Either America is the hope of the world, or it is nothing." I believe that still to be so, and further that that hope is better grounded today than ever before for the very reason that we are being forced to see what threatens us, and being...

Author: By Daniel P. Moynihan, | Title: Moynihan Assesses the Role of Architecture | 11/4/1967 | See Source »

...Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: president, Perry Gwynne More Austin '13, of Santa Barbara, Cal.; vice-president, Arnold Whitman Knauth '12, of New York; secretary, George Faulkner Plimpton '11, of Buffalo, N. Y.; treasurer. Charles Gouveneur Hoffman '13 of New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Paul's Society Elections | 1/26/1911 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Having occasion to examine recently the will of Lewis Morris, executed Nov. 19, 1760, I found in it the following clause: "It is my desire that my son Gouveneur Morris may have the best education that is to be had in England or America, but my express will and directions are that he be never sent for that purpose to the colony of Connecticut least he should imbibe in his youth that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/14/1886 | See Source »

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