Word: hancock
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...school stood on what is now the lawn of Boston's City Hall and Benjamin Franklin was a pupil. In the years before the Revolution its Master was a Loyalist named John Lovell, who had the task of making such ardent young Revolutionists as John Hancock, Samuel Adams, William Hooper and Robert Treat Paine mind their Cicero...
Clashing on the subject "Resolved, That the teaching of military science in our colleges should be discontinued," a Freshman team consisting of Robert T. Benjamin, David E. Feller, and William W. Hancock will uphold the affirmative against Princeton in the Harvard-Yale Princeton triangular debate next Friday, it was announced yesterday as the result of recent trials held by the Union Society...
...team for this debate will consist of John L. Calvocoressi, William W. Hancock, and Albert Stickney...
...inefficient, stupid or untrustworthy lieutenants. Only two of Grant's generals whom Biographer McCormick praises are Sherman and Sheridan: Sherman was a good tactician but a poor fighter; Sheridan was Grant's equal in battle but never commanded a large army. For Burnside, Hancock, Meade, et al., McCormick has little but harsh words: "Strive as he might, Grant could not drive them forward...
...signed by the president and the four members of faculty who formed the entire staff. In this record of the man who was to become the treasurer of the University in the post-Revolutionary period, and who was to have the task of straightening the accounts left by John Hancock whom he succeeded, we find a long list of the rules for Freshmen. The beginner should not wear his hat in the Yard "except it rains, halls, or snows, or be on horseback or have both hands full." Furthermore, he must pull his hat off when passing his tutor...