Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD 1933 MILTON Baldwin, l. w. T. w., Lincoln Everett, c. C., Beale ReII, r. w. L. W., Ware Clement, l. d. r. d., Hallett David, r. d. l. d., Saltonstall Bartol, g. g., Thompson...
...Lincoln was not a happy man. Said his friend and partner Herndon: "His melancholy oozed from him as he walked." Depression led him into absent-minded habits, so that he would walk through the streets in a trance, laugh at the wrong times, and speak out of turn. Once for two days he neglected his law business while he sat, surrounded by compasses, calculations and rulers, trying to square the circle. He split rails and infinitives with equal ease: when he had written his letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination in 1860, he took it to the Springfield superintendent...
...Lincoln was one of the most original letter-writers who ever penned an official communication. His famed letter giving Hooker command of the Army of the Potomac is too long to quote. Here is one written when Lincoln was still a lawyer in Springfield, to a Manhattan firm which had inquired about the financial standing of a certain Springfield citizen. Said Lincoln: "First of all, he has a wife and a baby; together they ought to be worth $500,000 to any man. Secondly, he has an office in which there is a table worth $1.50, and three chairs worth...
...Significance. Popular with many plain people in his lifetime, Lincoln was almost universally hooted at by U. S. aristocracy and by Europe. (Notable exception: The Manchester trade-unionists, who applauded him even while the Southern blockade was ruining their cotton industry.) At his death the tide changed; now he is generally regarded, in the U. S. and abroad, as our greatest President, bar none. Says Biographer Ludwig: "In the many years I have been studying and writing about characters I have never found a more lovable man than Abraham Lincoln, whom God created as a solitary diamond, hors concours [unique...
FRESHMAN: Lincoln's Inn 4, Team C 1; Union Boat Club 4, Team...