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William and Mary has remained one of the "small colleges" of Webster's famous classification, with a celebrity and an influence out of proportion to its size. The oldest college in the South and next to Harvard the oldest in the country, it has a roster of graduates who of themselves make an American Hall of Fame. Washington received from William and Mary his first public office and was Chancellor of the college in 1794. It is the Alma Mater of three Presidents of the United States, Jefferson, Monroe and Tyler; of four signers of the Declaration of Independence...
...failures of which Mr. Ellis tells will be of particular interest to undergraduates; namely, John White Webster 1811, Ewing Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the University. This gentleman in his time was one of the most respected men of learning in New England. But this genial doctor, this cultured scientist, this popular society man came to an untimely end because he murdered a creditor who had hounded him too mercilessly. Whether Mr. Ellis considers him a failure because he committed the murder or because he was unable to hide his guilt, we cannot say; but it was probably...
...events Dr. Webster, having incurred debts with one Dr. Parkman and, having been unable to trick that gentleman with any great success, decided that the best way out of the difficulty would be to murder him. So he invited him to his laboratory and, when they were alone, disposed of him. Knowing that if he could entirely dispose of the body he could not under any circumstances be accused of murder, he summoned all his knowledge of chemistry to destroy it. He dismembered it and he boiled it and he treated it with acids until finally it was entirely disintegrated...
...unfortunately when he was cremating some scattered portions of Dr. Parkman the gentleman's false teeth fell through the grate of the furnace into the ash bed beneath. The discovery of these false teeth and its identification by the doctor's dentist were enough to send Professor Webster to the gallows...
...delegates; in Ohio, 71,597 votes and 48 delegates; in Indiana, 139,577 votes and 30 delegates: and in South Dakota, 10 delegates, which he won "automatically" under the Richards primary law by virtue of being the only candidate for the office. The other state that Mr. Webster contested was Oregon, which, however, was won by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71 of Massachusetts. Mr. Webster's popular vote in Oregan was about 14,000, which, added to the 326,369 received in the above named sixtes, gave him over one third of a million votes...