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...Hanna illustrates pioneer house construction by telling the story of Ancestor Washington ("Wash") Hanna's log cabin in Waterloo, Iowa. He skips his chance, however, to draw from the story of his distant kinsman, "President-Marker" Marcus Alonso ("Mark") Hanna (groceries, coal & iron, traction, banking...
...Once he made his way home from the Tower of London through howling crowds. He remained almost as expressionless through five miles of hostility as he had been through 60 miles of cheers. The difference was that he touched his hat to a hero named Martin Tupper who shouted, "Waterloo! Waterloo!" It was the 17th anniversary of the day Wellington and Blücher led the armies that saved the Empire, Europe, and the civilization that flowered in the long Victorian peace...
...iron figure presented to modern England as "a professional soldier with a laugh like a horse with whooping-cough" dismounted from his horse after Waterloo after 18 hours in the saddle, was nearly killed when the horse kicked, and was cheered by his wounded men as he passed them in the ghostly moonlight. Later, at his headquarters, whenever the door opened he looked up quickly, thinking it might be one of his missing officers. After Waterloo he said, "The hand of God has been over me this day," and went...
...sure that France could pay without undue strain what he ordered. . . . Europe owed to this dual functioning of common sense the longest peace it has known for centuries, and that is surely a greater claim to glory than all the Duke's victories from Assaye to Waterloo...
...book contains dozens of anecdotes of great Yale teachers- of William Graham Sumner, who used to thunder at his classes ; of Thomas Lounsbury and Henry Beers, who fought to make English literature a respect able study in a university that believed only in Latin, Greek and mathematics; of Arthur ("Waterloo") Wheeler, whose lectures on the French Revolution still kindle the memory of men who studied at Yale in the '90s; of Yale teacher-presidents from Porter to Hadley; and, finally, of Henry Canby and other younger...