Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States Supreme Court; 1810, Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, and Samuel Stanhope Smith, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton); 1814, Harrison Gray Otis of the class of 1783; 1817, James Monroe; 1822, John Quincy Adams of the class of 1787; 1824, Daniel Webster; 1825, Henry Clay; 1833, Andrew Jackson...
...second Todd of Todd Robertson Todd is James Todd, John Reynard's brother. John Reynard's tall Princetonian son Webster conducts, in close affiliation with his father's firm, the architectural-engineering partnership of Todd & Brown...
...ever apologize to any nation before in the course of its history?" There have been numerous occasions when our government has been magnanimous enough to express regret over international unpleasantness. Reference to any secondary school textbook would provide many such instances but I would like to mention that Daniel Webster apologized to Spain for the defacing of a portrait of Queen Isabella in New Orleans and that Seward, upon the advice of Lincoln and Sumner, made a similar gracious gesture to England in the "Trent Affair." Possibly these two secretaries of state could claim a 5? rating in our history...
...yard relay--Won by Harvard: P. B. Winterstein '34, J. M. Moore '34, White and Hasler; second, Exeter: Cahoon, Webster, Smith, and Short. Time...
With the election of next year's officers and council, the Model League of Nations Assembly finished a successful session on Saturday afternoon at Wellesley College. The closing speech by Professor C. K. Webster of Harvard, who has been a British representative to the League at Geneva several times, was loudly applauded by the delegates, who showed much enthusiasm for discussion. Professor Webster is the founder of the movement of Model Assemblies...