Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Classical Tradition students he admitted," according to David Henry '41, assistant chairman of Admissions under Gunmere. This interest in students carried over into his retirement years, during which he served as curator of the Lowell Lecture Series and was a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, Milton and Thayer academies, Browne and Nichols and Moses Brown schools...
...earlier action. Matthews North topped Thayer North, 19-9. Holworthy protected its undefeated record, winning over. Thayer Middle by forfeit. Matthews North will face Holworthy, the only team which defeated it in regular season play, on Monday afternoon...
...replacement in 1817 was Major Sylvanus Thayer, the man most responsible for shaping West Point's future. A graduate of the class of 1807, Thayer envisioned a school that would not only produce leaders in wartime but would also train engineers and scientists to develop the growing country. Despite his ability, Thayer was constantly thwarted by Congressmen who saw the fledgling academy as a waste of money and a potential instrument of federal power, and so tried to have it abolished. Political favoritism in Washington forced reinstatement of dismissed cadets. Lack of funds became so crucial that cadets were...
Benny's Tavern. Eventually the animosity of President Andrew Jackson toward the school and what he considered its pampered and aristocratic students (despite the fact that these students were forced to sleep on the floor) caused Thayer's resignation. But by that time, the school was well established. Along came students like Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Ulysses S. Grant...
Where this ethic leads the New Politicians was most clearly demonstrated at the hearings in an hearings in an exchange between former Democratic National Chairman John Bailey's home state of Connecticut. The new politician, Thayer Baldwin, a New Haven attorney who serves as co-chairman of the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats, took exception to Bailey's defense of the state's tightly-controlled convention system of nominating candidates for public office. Bailey said that Connecticut Demo crafts--running nominees selected in this manner--had enjoyed a long series of electoral victories; Baldwin replied that rather than being preoccupied with...