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...father, Lord Salisbury, he was " born of a class which habitually thinks of the interests of the State as identical with their own." Lord Robert, facing the increased difficulties of more modern days, has kept faithfully the best traditions of his great family. It is, perhaps, interesting to note that he is a great-grandson of a grandson of Charles II. The first Cecil to be Prime Minister was "the Great Lord Burleigh," the one statesman who never lost the confidence of Queen Elizabeth...
...great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, Mr. Coolidge was born in Boston on August 26, 1831. He received his secondary school training in Europe and then entered the Sophomore class at the University in 1849, graduating in 1850, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1853 he received a Master's degree and in 1902 was conferred an LL.D...
...London about 1708. At his death his library was bought by Nathaniel Shaw, a wealthy parishioner, from whom if passed through his granddaughter. Polly Shaw, to her husband, Ephraim Woodbridge, the seventh pastor of the same church. Mr. Mitchell, who gives the book to the Harvard Library, is a great-grandson of Ephraim Wood-bridge. It would probably be difficult to find in the College Library another volume containing so many early New England publications of extreme rarity...