Word: sumter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spent his life as an educator. He was President of William and Mary College from 1898 until his resignation in 1919. His first marriage took place 45 years ago. A widower, he married Miss Sue Ruffin, 35, great granddaughter of the man who fired the first gun at Fort Sumter. Dr. Tyler and his bride will live at "The Den," Holdcroft...
...take another period of our national life--that which came down to the Civil War. You will find volumes--libraries of dissension touching its causes and development. The cannon shot at Sumter blew away all but the idealism. It was after that high exhibition of idealism in our Civil War that those who saw in it only a war of rebellion saw also an opportunity for the exploitation of the commercial advantages offered by the succeeding conditions. Small wonder that other nations became established in their conviction that we were a commercial and soulless people worshipping the dollar and given...