Word: samuel
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...miles from Cape Spear, Nfld., to Mount St. Elias in the Yukon, and the people who inhabit Canada's sweeping domain are as varied as the landscape. First to come in large numbers were the French, in the footsteps of Explorer Samuel de Champlain; they still make up nearly one-third of the population and live chiefly in Quebec. British merchants, traders and settlers followed after Quebec was captured by the British in 1759, their numbers enhanced after 1776 by immigrant American colonials who preferred British rule to U.S. independence. Today 40% of all Canadians are Anglo-Saxons...
...educators, who have traditionally been wary about the "dangers" of too much sexual intermingling in classes, also concede that coeducation provides students with a sounder basis for marriage. The mixed campus provides a meshing of intellectual and social life in which the boys find, says Kirkland's President Samuel Babbitt, that "girls become people, not just playmates...
...also revealed at the conference that a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara protesting the war in Vietnam has been signed by over 1000 seminarians as well as by Samuel B. Miller, Dean of Harvard Divinity School and other religious leaders. The letter, written by students from Union Theological Seminary of New York, will be mailed to McNamara within the next few weeks...
...York (9): Samuel Nelson, Ward Hunt, Samuel Blatchford, Rufus Peckham, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Stone, Benjamin Cardozo, Robert Jackson, John Harlan; Ohio (8): Noah Swayne, Salmon Chase, Morrison Waite, Stanley Matthews, William Day, John Clarke, Harold Burton, Potter Stewart; Massachusetts (6): Benjamin Curtis, Horace Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Moody, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter.* Jackson and Taft also nominated...
T.S.ELIOT once said of Samuel Johnson that, solely on the basis of his poem "The Vanity of Human Wishes," he could be considered a major poet. Johnson's poem appeared as a twenty-eight page leaflet in 1749, and was the first of his published works to bear his name on the title page. Obviously he had no previous reputation as a poet, nor do most people remember him as one, though Boswell somewhere speaks of Johnson as "perpetually a poet" (a statement intended to refer to his quality of mind. The only two poems which appear to have survived...