Word: websters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...central Massachusetts college was founded in September of 1821, 45 miles west of Worcester as a seminary called the "Collegiate Charitable Institution." It has as its nominal founder men like Noah Webster and Samuel P. Dickinson, the grandfather of the poet Emily, but was largely made possible through the contributions and physical labor of more than thirteen hundred citizens of the neighboring countryside. Although it still instructs in "all branches of literature and science," it long ago adopted the surname of the renowned Indian hunter and has long since extended its influence beyond the sons of the Connecticut Valley farmers...
Sets were designed by Webster Lithgow '56, and costumes by Leslie van Zandt...
...Cambridge's citizens, evidently unimpressed by this magnificence, objected to paying toll. The court battle, a famous case which essentially modified the doctrine of "vested rights," went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Although Daniel Webster represented the bridge owners, he lost his case, and tolls were discontinued in 1836. The city then took over the bridge, keeping it in good repair until crowds going to Soldiers Field nearly crashed through it. Hearing that a philanthropist might donate funds for a memorial bridge, the City Council waited, however, until Anderson gave the money...
Douglas W. Hunt '55 of Lexington and Lowell House last night was elected president of Phillips Brooks House for the 1954-55 school year. William J. A. Jabionski '55 of Webster and Kirkland House will serve as vice-president...
Such big Eastern firms as Ebasco, Raymond Concrete Pile, Merritt-Chapman & Scott, Stone & Webster are building air bases in France and Spain, powerhouses in Greece, a dam in Japan, electric plants in Bombay, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, oil refineries in England, Italy, and Australia, paper mills for Israel, roads through the Belgian Congo, and a new harbor at Auckland...