Word: webster
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...Said Daniel Webster of Dartmouth: "It is a small college, and yet there are those who love...
Ever since Stanford University began teaching medicine in 1909, its students have led an academic double life. At the university campus in Palo Alto, they learned anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology and physiology. At the 237-bed San Francisco Stanford Hospital on Clay and Webster Streets, 35 miles away, they studied pharmacology and pathology, did their clinical work under a topflight, largely volunteer staff of local physicians and surgeons, long rated as one of the best in the country...
Radcliffe's 81st year began officially yesterday with the formal opening of the College at 4 p.m. in the Cambridge Congregational Church. Addressing students in the College and the Radcliffe Graduate School were Kathleen O. Elliott, dean of Instruction, Janet Webster '59, president of the Student Government Association, and Wilbur K. Jordan, president of the College...
Around the World on ?5. Belle was a born courtesan, and she was proud of her profession. Her definition of the term owes less to Webster's dictionary ("a loose woman") than it does to Larousse's (a woman of "wit and elegance"), and she is historically correct in her estimate of the social importance of the courtesan in European society before World War I. It was the era of the marriage of convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess...
Testimony, Not Test. The statement (see box) will be a testimony, not a test, of faith. Chiefly responsible for its text: Commission Chairman Dr. Elmer J. F. Arndt, professor of historical theology and Christian ethics at E. & R. Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, Mo. Said Arndt: "We wanted a statement that was genuinely Biblical, that was expressed in the words of our time, and that had the form and character to make it suitable for liturgical use. We found our efforts always turned out to be patterned on the Apostles' Creed: first we talk about God, the Creator...