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...DANIEL WEBSTER-Claude M. Fuess- Little, Brown ($10).† If a decent interval has interposed between you and your schooldays, you probably think of Daniel Webster as a forbidding old party who invented U. S. oratory and was somehow not elected President. Perhaps you may have the idea he wrote a dictionary.**With the exception of the bit about the dictionary, your memory is accurate if not exhaustive. No debunker but a solid and serious historian, Fuess has filled two fat volumes with facts about his hero, facts which somehow, however, do not add up into a speaking likeness. Some...
Most impressive figure in the Senate, Webster, 5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs., with coarse black hair and glowing eyes, always wore a blue coat with brass buttons. His fame was international. When he visited England he was lionized, called "the Great Western." After an audience with sprightly young Queen Victoria, Webster pronounced her "intelligent and agreeable." Practical farmer and lover of the country, Webster was a first-rate angler. He thought his success due "to careful and thorough fishing of the difficult places which others do not so fish." Once out shooting he peppered a stranger by mistake...
...Ryner and first performed in London in 1838, is the first to be given by the fraternity since 1916, when the second part of "Henry IV" was played in twelve different cities. The cast of the present play includes Howard Ulfelder '32, R. B. Clement '33, A. N. Webster '31, K. L. Johnson '32, C. E. Bell '31 D. B. Dorman '32, R. K. Vincent '32, C. B. Sykes '33, G. R. Ince '32, and J. U. Nutter, Jr. '33, Nutter, Ince, Ulfelder, and Sykes have the leading parts...
...DiNunzio, G. A. Donaldson, E. E. Ford, J. M. Hunter, P. A. Ketehum, Captain; H. E. Nyhoff, G. M. Phelps, A. R. Rourke, A. R. Serino, J. R. Sharkey, H. W. Sibley, C. A. Snelling, C. L. Sommers, J.B. Thorndike, E. T. Tryon, R. L. Vaughan, A. N. Webster and E. M. Worthen, J.B. Collins '32, manager of the class team
...University: Elmer Peter Kohler. Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry: George Howard Parker '87, professor of Zoology and director of the Zoological Laboratory: Edwin Francis Gay, professor of Economic History: Lionel Simeon Marks, professor of Mechanical Engineering: Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy: Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of History: Arthur Meier Schlesinger, professor of History: Kenneth John Conant, '15, associate professor of Architecture: Robert Silliman Hillyer '17, assistant professor of English; and tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...