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...will find that it was urged by Lord Bacon, by Milton, by Shakespeare in England; by Socrates, by Plato, by Diogenes and the other wisest of the philosophers of ancient Greece; by Pope Pius XI in the Vatican; by the world's greatest inventor, Marconi, in Italy; Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt in the United States, as well as by nearly all of the thousands of great men whose names are mentioned in history, and the only great man who ever came forth to dispute these things from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Pied Pipers | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

Epee: Richard Ford '36; Edward E. Langenau '35; Edward O. Miller '37; Webster F. Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Fencers to Clash With Varsity in Meet Here | 3/16/1935 | See Source »

...will be assisted by Stuart D. D. Pearl 3L, L. Albert Emerson 4 SLA, Donald E. Stofflet 3G, Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35, Charles J. Armstrong 2G., James H. Littlepage uL, Oswald Elbert 1G, David G. Proctor '35, and Adolph G. Emhardt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Acacia Club Dances | 3/15/1935 | See Source »

...track of what was happening. The campus was decorated with statues made of ice and snowmen twelve feet high. The first night of the Carnival, the Outing Club gave its pageant-"Jottunheimer Eiskorneval"-a preposterous affair about Norwegian snow gods and a fancy-skating maiden. A committee chose Pauline Webster of Detroit, a pretty blonde girl who works on the Detroit News, Queen of the Snows, but no one could find the silver cup on which the Queen's name is annually engraved. A freshman, Richard Durrance, was crowned King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snow & Ice | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...Epee: Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35 (H) defeated Olvany (B), 2-1; Edward E. Langenan '35 (H) defeated Hulbert (B), 2-0; Richard Ford '36 (H) defeated Olvany (B), 2-0; Williams (H) defeated Hulbert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity and Freshmen Down Brown Fencers Decisively | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

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