Word: parkman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issued in 1834, but his subsequent activities as President Folk's Secretary of the Navy, and as Minister to England and to Germany, prevented him from getting further than 1782. A great historian must also be a literary craftsman. Literature as well as history was created by Francis Parkman and Henry Adams, but neither of them re corded more than one period in American affairs. Nearest to achieve Dr. Channing's ambition have been two contemporaries: University of Pennsylvania's Professor Emeritus John Bach McMaster, who dealt with the period from the Revolution to the Civil...
Among those who have accepted invitations for the high table tonight at Lowell House are Professor LeB. R. Briggs '75, Emeritus, President R. B. Ogilby, of Trinity College, Hartford, and Dr. Francis Parkman '18, headmaster of St. Marks School. Dr. Parkman will be in the large Common Room half an hour before dinner to meet the alumni of his school. Carrying out the schedule arranged at the outset by Professor Coolidge, there has been a high table every Monday night since the first one, which was held Monday, September 29. This is the tenth in the series, which will continue...
...waiters at the Harvard quarters have begun to talk about a race, and this afternoon, after commandeering some Yale oars to fit out a shell, an eight took to the water. It included Francis Parkman '18, C. F. Bound '32, Marshall Rawle '30, P. M. Whitman '32, P. H. Clark Jr. '30, E. C. Nickerson II '32, W. M. Rainbolt Jr. ocC, A. V. Woodworth Jr. '33, and O. S. Staples...
...author with the largest number of titles on the list is a onetime White House occupant, Theodore Roosevelt. His four volumes: Autobiography, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Letters to his Children. Robert Louis Stevenson also is four times included. Mark Twain and Francis Parkman will have three volumes each on the White House shelves...
...Barnaby 2d '33 defeated Read (UBC) 15-11, 19-16, 18-15; H. V. Blaxter Jr. '33 defeated Erskine (UBC) 15-8, 8-15, 15-11, 15-12; J. B. Walker '33 defeated Winslow (UBC) 18-15, 18-16, 15-10, G. P. Webber '33 defeated Parkman...