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...spaicous tent, the garlands, the festoons. Clatter of plates and glasses formed a song for the celebration. Soon speeches by Governor Edw. Everett, and then toast after toast until all our heads were swimming merrily in the good refreshment of the college. Fine words and much sense from Mr. Webster who expounded the glories of our Constitution. Now more toasts to cities and states, until Mr. Saltonstall, Mayor of Salem and descendant of "that most excellent knight," spoke for his town. Now many songs, the whole assembly joining in the singing of them...
Inaugurated. Robert Sidney Maestri, 47, squat, swarthy New Orleans real estate tycoon, a political heir to the late Huey Long; as the city's first bachelor mayor; after certification by Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche. Because no opponent appeared, no election was necessary...
...energy in beggars, elegance in peasants, even benevolence in misers and grandeur in porters and sweeps. In Newport, traditional home of Tories, toasts were still drunk to the King and culture was crippled by an affected admiration for English writing. In Connecticut the dry, energetic, cranky old genius, Noah Webster, was working out his dictionary that would establish a national language as a bond of national unity. New England life might be hard and strenuous, but when intellectuals looked toward Europe they saw a continent that was exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars. At the sight of such overseas confusion, despair...
...Ohio youth, William Holmes McGuffey, son of a Scotch-Irish Indian fighter from Pennsylvania, never set eyes on the two books which were the Eclectic Readers' precursors-the didactic Webster Blue Back Speller and the holy, fearsome New England Primer. He worked on his father's farm, did not go to school until he was 16. When Father McGuffey hacked a five-mile road through the forest to Youngstown, Ohio, Son William went there to study Latin with a clergyman. One day his devout mother knelt in her yard to pray that Son William might be educated...
...Eclectic Readers and the spellers, co-edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey, have sold 124,000,000 copies in the U. S., yield only to the Bible and Webster's Dictionary in circulation. The Readers spread to 37 States, reached their crest around 1880, still roll up small, steady royalties for American Book Co. which now holds the copyright. Of this wealth Author McGuffey had a modest share. He sold his copyright for $500 and 10% royalties up to $1,000. His publishers paid him a salary for supervising revisions, an annuity after the Civil...