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...furor never let up. If it had not been for the Bread and Butter Rebellion in 1805 and the Cabbage Rebellion in 1807, the administration of Samuel Webber might have been forgotten. But it was during the Great Rebellion of 1818 that a whole class was expelled. It was at this time that "The Rebelliad" was written...
...USEASA Relay and N.H. Jump at Lebanon, N.H.; Feb, 6-7, EISA Estn. Div. Chmps; 13-14, Williams Carnival; 21, Brattleboro Invitation Jump; 28, Harvard-Bromley Slalom, Manchester, Vt.; Mar. 6-7, EISA Senior Div. Chmps, Lyndonville; 14, USEASA Men's Giant, Slalom, Stowe; 20-21, Webber Cup Downhill, Pinkham Notch; 20-21, Widener Memorial, Waterville Valley; 28, Sap Run Slalom, Jackson, N.H.; April 5, Harvard-Yale, Princeton Slalom, Mt. Washington; 17-18, Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom, Mt. Washington...
...early New England, the narrowing strictures of puritanism were constantly endangering the College. The election of Samuel Webber to the presidency in 1806 marked the first in a long line of Unitarian presidents. Samuel Eliot Morison writes, "Orthodox Calvinists, of the true puritan tradition now became open enemies to Harvard.... Unitarianism of the Boston stamp was not a fixed dogma but a point of view that was receptive, searching, inquiring, and yet devout; a halfway house to the rationalistic and scientific point of view...
...University's reputation for liberalism continued to grow under John T. Kirkland, who followed Webber. But it was Josiah Quincy, president from 1829 to 1845, who most earnestly concerned himself with freeing education from provincialism...
...corner of the old Detroit Opera House. At first, it sold only men's and boys' clothing, but soon moved into larger quarters and expanded its line to almost everything except autos. When J.L., a bachelor, died in 1912, he left the business to his nephews, the Webber boys-Richard H. (now chairman), Oscar (president), James B. and Joseph L. (both merchandising directors...