Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tranquil afternoon, John Hay would look out of his windows on La Fayette Square, watch an "old corps commander or admiral of the Civil War, tottering along to the club for his cards or cocktail." Over there was where Mrs. Dolly Madison used to live after her husband died, there was the house of Daniel Webster, of William H. Seward, of Commodore Stephen Decatur. In 1905 John Hay died; so did the one great salon of the New World...
...Concord N.J.-Trenton N. Mex.-Santa Fe N.Y.-Albany N .C.-Raleigh N. Dak.-Bismarck Ohio-Columbus Okla.-Oklahoma City Ore.-Salem Pa.-Harrisburg R. I.- Providence S.C.-Columbia S.Dak.-Pierre Tenn.-Nashville Tex.-Austin Utah-Salt Lake City Vt.-Montpelier Va.-Richmond Wash.-Olympia W. Va.-Charleston Wis.-Madison Wyo.-Cheyenne
Another preacher's name went on the roster of those who have spurned Manhattan pastorates for the greater contentment of provincial charges. The present instance is that of Rev. Robert R. Wicks who has refused to succeed Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin at Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbysterian Church. Pastor Wicks remains; at Holyoke, Mass., industrial boiling potlet...
...sister of President Madison once said, "We Southern ladies are complimented with the name of wives; but we are only the mistresses of seraglios...
Summer's peace on the shores of Lake Mendota (Madison, Wis.) is broken by the fall of hammers and the whine of planes. New dormitories are arising, where a year from this autumn the first fruit of the administration of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin will burgeon. It is to be an experimental college starting with 125 freshmen-all men-voluntarily enrolled to undertake two years of "project study" under the direction of Professor Alexander Meiklejohn and a special faculty. In 1928 another 125 freshmen will be admitted. At the end of its second experimental year...