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...Roger Sherman of Connecticut offered a compromise. Why, he asked on June 11, could not one chamber of the Congress have seats allotted according to population, while the other preserved the principle of one vote for each state? Eventually, of course, that was the proposal that would prevail, but Sherman's compromise met a predictable fate. The big states, having a majority, ignored...
Connecticut offered Sherman's compromise a second time and a third. The Madison forces refused to budge. Madison gibed at Connecticut for tax evasion: "Has she paid, for the last two years, any money into the Continental Treasury?" Oliver Ellsworth angrily retorted, "Connecticut had more troops in the field than even the state of Virginia . . . We feel the effects of it even to this day." Pennsylvania's Wilson fretfully asked why the small states persisted in their suspicions of the large ones. Gunning Bedford of Delaware provided a sharp answer: "I do not, gentlemen, trust...
Some think that compromise came only because the weather finally relented. After weeks of broiling heat, a breeze blew from the northwest on Friday, July 13. That weekend the delegates could get some sleep. Monday the 16th was cool. The Connecticut compromise offered by Sherman a month earlier began to seem eminently reasonable. So a somewhat amended version was agreed...
...went on to score several collegiate home-runs by winning the American Friends of the London School of Economics fellowship for a year of study at that institution, Radcliffe college's Mildred Percival Sherman fellowship, whose $2000 stipend she will use to defray costs at the London school, and the two to three year Mellon fellowship for the humanities, which will enable her to pursue a Master's in Philosophy at Columbia University starting in the fall...
...Union was to serve the dual purpose of a social center for students and a war memorial to the seven Harvard men who died in the Spanish Civil War of 1898. All seven are listed above the entrance to the main dining area, and seventh man on the list, Sherman Hoar (class of 1887), is thought to be the model for the bust of John Harvard that adorns the Union's mantlepiece...