Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice with considerable disgust that in your football discussions in TIME for Nov. 16 you state that "a blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson." Such a view scarcely coincides with my view of the affair...
...difficult play, upon which has been spent a deal of extra worry, time, and pains, and can not find it in his heart to give it the praise such an expenditure of talent should warrant. Such is the case with the revival of the play in which Joseph Jefferson, contemporary of Booth, originally made the hit of his lifetime. The production of "Rip Van Winkle" at the New Repertory Theatre is done with considerable artistry, elaborate and delightful stage effects, excellent music, and harmony in every detail. Yet it drags. It drags interminably. On Monday evening the final curtain...
Died. J. Randolph Coolidge, 97, last of the great-grandsons of Thomas Jefferson, in Boston. He was the oldest Harvard alumnus, a Law School classmate ('54) of the late Joseph H. Choate. He prepared himself for a civil engineer, but undermined his health by work on some of the earliest railroads of Virginia. After studying law, he was unable to practice on account of deafness. His later days were spent in the study of international affairs. His surviving sons are Archibald Gary Coolidge, famed Harvard Professor and Editor of Foreign Affairs; J. Randolph Coolidge Jr., able architect; John Gardner...
...fifty founders became United States senators, one representing Virginia and the other Kentucky. Two served as judges of the higher courts of Virginia, one having the unique honor, as presidential elector, of voting twice for Jefferson, twice for Madison, twice for Munroe, and once for John Quincy Adams 1787, who was the first Phi Beta Kappa man to become President of the United States...
William Short, second president of Phi Beta Kappa, accompanied Jefferson to Paris as secretary, and when Jefferson returned to America to become Secretary of State under President Washington, Short remained in Paris as charge d'affairs, his commission being the first to be signed by George Washington as President. Later William Short represented the United States at The Hague and in Spain...