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Martin's address, sponsored by the Institute of Politics, attempted to provide a solution to "The Problem That Baffled Jefferson", how to adapt European etiquette to a democratic society...
...Jefferson, Martin said, was greatly influenced by the "Jean-Jacques Rousseau noble savage school of etiquette" and tried to apply it to the White House protocol by stripping all foreign visitors, even noblemen, of rank. This "pell mell" effort to make all men equal only "offended everyone equally" and had to be abandoned during President Madison's term, she added...
...with hanging baskets and beamed ceiling. On one side of a table sat Dr. Robert Gallo, 47, a brash NIH scientist who started life as the son of a small-town welder and has become one of the nation's leading cancer researchers. Sensitive about his diploma from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia ("I had to fight to prove I was good, because I didn't go to Harvard"), Gallo gained a reputation in 1980 by becoming the first scientist to discover a virus that causes cancer in humans. Now he was claiming another victory: identification...
There are people today who express wonder that figures like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams wrote a good number of personal letters every day (and made copies too) and still found time to run the country. Or even that Harry Truman regularly wrote to his wife. There are people today who receive a wedding invitation and answer with a telephone call, or forget to answer at all. There are people today who are psychologically unable to write a letter to anybody on any subject. Meanwhile, the postal system has silted up with all the debris of computerized commerce: catalogues from...
...large crowd assembled in Sanders Theatre for the debut of the statue on October 15, 1884. Austin and Sever Halls, designed by H. H. Richardson (Class of 1859), had just been completed and Jefferson was still under construction...