Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Association. Numbering roughly 600, its members reflect twenty-eight states, D. C. and Canada. Officers of the two national garden club groups are on its lists as well as other famous botanists Many a good old Boston name is represented, from a number of Cabots to professor Samuel Eliot Morlson. Women are predominant...
...Samuel Johnson, a Yale graduate and Connecticut cleric, reluctantly rode down to accept the presidency of the new institution. Nine years later he resigned, bewildered by the complexities of city life, but only after he had seen the nation's fifty oldest college--renamed Columbia after the Revolutionary War--established as New York's challenge to Princeton, New Haven, and Cambridge...
...quite sure just when Goffe College disappeared. There is proof that the building was still standing in 1671. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison supposed that "Goffe College must have been burned, taken down, or disposed of before 1677." By then, a new four-storied brick building with 12 gables Harvard Hall...
...number of scholars will help Butterfield with editorial problems, including Harvard historians Paul H. Buck, Mark DeWolfe Howe '28 of the Law School, Samuel E. Morison, and Arthur M. Schlesinger...
...first Whig was the devil!" exclaimed Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1778. The good Tory doctor had reason to be vehement, for nothing like the Whig aristocracy had existed in England before. Whig families owned most of the land, dwelt in "homes with 60 bedrooms," gambled away whole fortunes in a night, and lived and governed England with "an animal recklessness at once terrifying and exhilarating." Whig men believed that chastity was a dangerous thing; it gave a man the gout, they said. Fortunately, Whig women did their best to keep the boys gout-free...