Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oarsmen out on the river for two days, hoping to keep them there until cold winds slow them in about the middle of November. Haines great vehicle of instruction, the leviathan, has been making four or five trips daily filled to the last seat with aspiring novices. A. N. Webster '33, a crew letter man for his last three years in college is again helping Haines with the Freshmen. About 175 men have turned out for Freshmen rowing; and those who claim prep school experience have been put into four shells and take long workouts under the megaphone...
...that an honor grade might be attained with little or no attendance at lectures. The close parallelism (or perhaps a better term might be found, for parallel lines never meet!) of the lectures and reading make much of the work pure repetition. Only a very few exceptions, notably Professor Webster's masterpiece on the History of Modern Britain and the British Empire, discuss tendencies and movements, thus introducing a spirit of life which cannot in the nature of things be derived from readings alone. And surely the much-emphasized traditions of unity, hats, and pointers, are not among the best...
President Lowell was a member of the so-called Lowell Commission appointed by former governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts to examine the evidence submitted to Judge Webster Thayer in the famed Sacco-Vanzetti case. Acting in accordance with the commission's findings, Governor Fuller refused to take any executive action in the line of pardoning the convicted men or commuting their death sentences. Fuller and Judge Robert Grant of Boston, also a member of the investigating commission, were guarded along with President Lowell. The third member, President Stratton of M.I.T., has since died...
...that the Government should resort to the printing press and the issuance of fiat currency. Such an act of moral bankruptcy would depreciate and might ultimately destroy the value of every dollar in the United States. It would cause the collapse of all confidence and bring widespread ruin. Daniel Webster, 100 years ago, stated...
...experience of every govern-ment in the world since that day has confirmed Webster's statement...