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Erickson won for his proposal entitled "Romantic Myths of the American Constitution 1789-1865." The basis of the proposal, his 1983 dissertation, was the first book-length study on the speeches of Daniel Webster written from a literary-rather than historical or legal-point of view...
...visitors' ruthlessly aggressive D intensified nine minutes into the first half, when McLaughlin, satisfied with the breakdown of the Dartmouth press offense, replaced sophomore guard Keith Webster with Greg. Wildes for most of the rest of the contest...
Greg Wildes, Pat Smith and Keith Webster currently round out the starting quintet, whose scoring production last year was tops in the leisure...
HARVARD (66)-Joe Carrabiho 10-5-25; Greg Wildes 2-0-4; Bob Eerry 8-2-18; Keith Webster 0-2-2; Pat Smith 1-2-4; Kyle Dodson 1-1-3; Bob Daugherty 0-0-0; Bill Mohler 0-0-0; Arne Dunean...
...setting was historically apt. Until the Civil War, the ornate and intimate Old Senate Chamber, its dark wooden desks arranged in semicircles, rang with the spirited oratory of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Last week, when the Senate's 53 Republicans gathered in the museum-like room to elect their leader for the next two years, the forensics were apparently no less rousing. Kansan Robert Dole claimed to be thoroughly persuaded by the speech his nominator, John Danforth of Missouri, made on his behalf. "It was so impressive," Dole quipped, "that I ended up voting...