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Horace Mann immediately succeeded to John Quincy Adams' seat in Congress as an anti-Slavery Whig. In 1850 he wrecked what might have been a promising political career by breaking with Daniel Webster after that statesman's "Seventh of March Speech," advocating a compromise on the extension of slavery to the Northern territories. In 1852 Mann was defeated as the Free-Soil candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Same year he returned to education by accepting the presidency of New Antioch College...
...following are the first appointments: Henry A. Burgess, Weld 24, Shapidan High School, Sheridan Wy., William C. Coleman, Hollis 28, Kent School, Eccleston, Md.; John L. Donnell, Matthews 8, Webster Grove High School, Webster Grove, Md.; Vinton Freedley, Mower A-31, St. Paul's School, New York City; Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., Holworthy 2, Milton Academy, Brookline...
John Lanior Donnell, of Webster Groves High School and Webster Groves, Missouri, will edit the 1940 Freshman Red Book. Willard Perrin Fuller, Jr., of Noble and Greenough School and Dedham, will assist him as Business Manager...
Mississippi's Governor Hugh Lawson White and Louisiana's Richard Webster...
...collect in definitive form the words that have meanings and currency peculiar to the U. S. Last week in Chicago appeared the first section, A-to-Baggage, of his long-awaited Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles* When complete the Dictionary will be as bulky as a Webster's Unabridged, will sell...