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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Webster's Dictionary defines the noun Norse: ". . . Collectively: a. Scandinavians. b. Norwegians...
...Robert H. Sproat, 3rd. '38; Maurice Steinberg '39; Felix F. Stumpf '38; Arthur Szathmary '37; Harold R. Taylor '39; Alfred W. Teichmeier, Jr. '38; Arthur E. Tiemann '39; Daniel Tower '37; Henry H. Urrows '38; Albert H. Walker '37; Thayer S. Warshaw '37; Ira A. Watson '37; Walter W. Webster, Jr. '39; Albert E. Weiner...
...they and their wives whisper unkind things about his favorite Peggy O'Neal. The career of this strong-minded young man is this essence of the picture: her service as inn-keeper's daughter rendered to Andrew Jackson and his Rachel, and to the brilliant states rights squabblers, Danial Webster and John Randolph of Virginia; her brief marriage to an excessively gay sailor; her having to spurn the adored John Randolph because he subscribes to the wrong view, her serving Andrew Jackson as the wife of his nondescript Secretary of War, and her implication in scandal as the result...
Horace Mann immediately succeeded to John Quincy Adams' seat in Congress as an anti-Slavery Whig. In 1850 he wrecked what might have been a promising political career by breaking with Daniel Webster after that statesman's "Seventh of March Speech," advocating a compromise on the extension of slavery to the Northern territories. In 1852 Mann was defeated as the Free-Soil candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Same year he returned to education by accepting the presidency of New Antioch College...
...following are the first appointments: Henry A. Burgess, Weld 24, Shapidan High School, Sheridan Wy., William C. Coleman, Hollis 28, Kent School, Eccleston, Md.; John L. Donnell, Matthews 8, Webster Grove High School, Webster Grove, Md.; Vinton Freedley, Mower A-31, St. Paul's School, New York City; Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., Holworthy 2, Milton Academy, Brookline...