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When this speaker, accustomed to audiences, lay dying, his mind wandered for a few moments; when he came to himself he asked: "Have I, on this occasion, said anything unworthy of Daniel Webster...
...that Biographer Fuess has done, it is not as a statesman but as the orator of the Plymouth oration, the Bunker Hill address, the reply to Hayne, that the U. S. remembers Daniel Webster. Some Websterisms...
History 68, Professor Webster, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 10 o'clock...
History 68, under the able hand of Professor C. K. Webster of the University of Wales, provides a very interesting and instructive half year of work. It covers British Foreign Policy from the Congress of Vienna up to the end of the century, a chapter in international relations as engrossing as it is significant...
Professor Webster is admirably lucid and entertaining throughout; while his comprehensive and incisive insight enables him to present the giants of British diplomacy in a light which is peculiarly revealing. The character of the British nation comes in for close scrutiny, and those who take History 68 will find it useful for a great deal more than an understanding of foreign relations along. A better knowledge of all British lectures which give in turn something of the drama, humor, and thought which went into the external relations of the greatest empire in the world during the nineteenth century...