Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lamar attended the University of Virginia with the class of 1928. In college he participated in football, boxing and baseball. In 1931 he became head coach of the Varsity boxing team, was assistant Freshman football line coach in 1933, and Freshman line coach...
...providing a gallery in the Capitol to house "statues of two distinguished citizens from each state who were illustrious for their historic renown." Since then 35 states have made contributions to Statuary Hall. A few of the figures are known to every schoolboy (Washington and Lee from Virginia; Daniel Webster from New Hampshire; Andrew Jackson from Tennessee; Samuel Adams and John Winthrop from Massachusetts; John C. Calhoun from South Carolina; Sam Houston from Texas). Most of them, though, are second-rate politicians of the last century whose fame has already faded out of history. A few are local heroes...
...Thomas Jefferson's tombstone (which, like nearly everything else in his philosophically regulated life, he designed himself) he had chiseled the three achievements he wished his countrymen to remember him for; the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the founding of the University of Virginia. Historian Adams thinks Jefferson was too modest. Having listed such other claims to fame as his being Governor of Virginia, Minister to France, Secretary of State, twice President of the U. S., he calls Jefferson "the greatest Liberal America has produced and the most intensely 'American...
...same background, the same attitude as Washington, but a "far wider" range of intellectual and esthetic interests. A fine figure of a man (his sandy hair was six feet two inches from the ground) and brave, but no soldier, he served the Revolution in Congress and as Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose the biparty system. Author Adams admits that Hamilton was the favorite child and that his gospel of Federalism...
...particularly happy. Among their achievements that he did not wish posthumously boasted was the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the U. S.'s territory. His public service over, he was glad to get back to his books and his beloved Monticello. In 1819 he laid out the University of Virginia almost single-handed and down to its last architectural and administrative detail, served as its first Rector. Bad times wasted his patrimony away, but he died without knowing that Monticello would have to be sold. His last years were enlivened by a correspondence with John Adams, a friend of long...