Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...united Europe." He defends the U. S. delay in entering the War by picturing U. S. polyglot population as a sturdy band of folk collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee" to the same tune as "God Save the King." He reminds England that President Wilson said "too proud to fight" to Mexico, not Europe...
Married. Miss Lilla Cabot Grew, daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey; to Jay Pierrepont Moffat, first Secretary in the U. S. Legation at Ottawa; at Hancock...
...Washington, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Grant, Roosevelt were hero-warrior Presidents. Two other dashing generals, but poor politicians, Winfleld Scott and W. S. Hancock, were nominated and defeated. Admiral George Dewey tried for the nomination in 1900 and fizzled...
...until 1764 that a third endowed professorship was established at Harvard. In that year Thomas Hancock, uncle of the hero of the Revolution, founded by the terms of his will, a professorship of Hebrew and other oriental languages. For this purpose he bequeathed 1,000 pounds sterling, the income from which was to defray the expenses of the professor. Hancock, who was the first native American to lay the foundation of a professorship in any literary institution in this country, was born in Lexington. Stephen Sewall '21 was the first professor under this endowment. The present incumbent...
...Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory." The Corporation in rendering its thanks for the donation, asked the executors of the will to permit a full length portrait of Boylston to be drawn, at the expense of the College, and placed in Harvard Hall, with those of Hollis and Hancock. The painting, which was executed by Copley, is considered one of the most successful and finished examples of the work of that distinguished artist. The list of holders of the Boylston Professorships includes such famous names as John Quincy Adams '87, Francis James Child '46, Adams Sherman Hill '53, LeBaron Russell Briggs...