Word: jeffersons
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Site. A political trade planted Washington on the Potomac mudflats. Thomas Jefferson gave Southern support to Alexander Hamilton's campaign to have the U. S. assume the full cost of the Revolution. In return, in 1790, Hamilton helped Jefferson pass legislation locating the new capital in the South on the Potomac River. President Washington picked the site?100 sq. mi. ceded by Maryland and Virginia to the U. S. at the head of tide water. He called the new Capital "The Federal City." Jefferson, Madison and the three commissioners chosen to lay out the city, referred to it from...
Professor Herman Weyl will give a lecture on "The Symmetric and the Linear Group" in the Large Lecture Room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...
...bequest of about $68,000 to found a department of eugenics at Harvard was awarded yesterday to Jefferson Medical College after a litigation for the money brought on by Harvard's refusal of the gift. The award was made by the Philadelphia orphan's court...
After Harvard declined the fund, "feeling that the corporation would be unable to apply it in accordance with the desires of the testator," other institutions interested in eugenics and relatives of Dr. Mears sought to be awarded the money. The award to Jefferson was made because the court held it was qualified in every way to carry out the directions of the donor as expressed in his will...
...Alabama tigers to lead; men born for fighting, capable of fighting throughout all their long or short lives. They made the four years of the Confederacy possible. Then they too vanished." The scene set, Hergesheimer silhouettes against it nine representative actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest...