Word: sampson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Windsor, Ont. But Canadian law permitted the immigration of no slaves. So Lucian Fletcher married dusky Mary, settled down in Windsor's Negro district. In 1861 the Canadian census recorded the Fletcher household as consisting of Lucian. "one washerwoman, Mary Fletcher," and four pickaninnies: Sally. Moses. Maria, Sampson. Shortly thereafter a tax list reported Mary as "Mrs. Fletcher, widow and free-holder...
...naturalism, The Life of Reason. Although Santayana himself had declared that he was no poet, comparing himself to Don Quixote, the Spanish-American War aroused him to "the Dionysiac frenzy and impassioned tenderness" that he considered essential for true poetry. When the Spanish Fleet at Santiago was destroyed; Admiral Sampson made the "boorish jest" of calling the victory a Fourth of July present to the U. S. people. Santayana wrote Spain in America as an answer. The poem is a lament for Spain's "sadness and dishonor," a moving and eloquent cry for a marriage of the two cultures...
Nils V. Nelson '20, Rene Beroy, Frank Ryan '23, Adolph W. Samborski '26, Arthur Sampson, James M. Sampson, Abe Savrann. Arthur Siegel, Neil Stanley Fred R. Sullivan '27, Harold Ulen Clarence B. Van Wyck, Frank J. Vanghan, Adam J. Walsh, Mclville Webb, Bernard D. White '32, Charles J. Whiteside, Stanley Woodward, Joseph Wright...
Toastmaster for the occasion was William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics and Chairman of the Athletic Committee. H. Herbert Haines, President of the Coaches Club, spoke for the coaches, Henry Dunker '25 for Clark's friends, James P. Sampson '35 for the former managers who had worked with Clark, and Austen lake for the press. Richard C. Floyd '10, President of the Harvard Varsity Club, also delivered a short address...
...JAMES R. SAMPSON...