Word: willard
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...Willard Boyle...
...Harvard College. Revolutionary War veterans are buried there, including two black soldiers, as well as the early presidents of the College. These early presidents include Harvard’s first president Henry Dunster, as well as Charles Chauncy, Benjamin Wadsworth, class of 1690, Edward Holyoke, class of 1705, Joseph Willard, class of 1765, and Samuel Webber, class of 1784, according to Samuel A. Eliot’s “A History of Cambridge, Massachussetts...
...face of the future of Cuba. According to Michael D. Lockshin ’59, “He had been on a triumphant tour and students were in favor of him… he was a romantic hero to the students I knew.” Willard Emery, Jr. ’59 agreed, saying that “Batista was seen as a corrupt oppressor of the Cuban people and Fidel Castro was seen as coming from the mountains as a liberator.” Studying government at the time, Jonathan S. Barker ’59 said...
...Spring is coming and Washington, D.C., will soon hold its annual Cherry Blossom Festival, which celebrates the 3,000 blooming trees that were given to the city in 1912 by the mayor of Tokyo and planted by First Lady Helen Taft. To entice you to visit, the Willard InterContinental hotel - where the first Japanese delegation to the U.S. stayed in 1860, after trade opened between the two countries - has a "Very Cherry" package. Choose your bonus: breakfast for two, a room upgrade or a second room at half-price for children under 18. There is also a Cherry Blossom...
With books tucked neatly on the shelves and a comfy purple-dragon rug in a back-corner nook, the library at San Diego's Willard B. Hage Elementary School is the perfect place for children to fall in love with reading. Since the start of the school year, however, the library has been off-limits to students, who get to go there only when (already overworked) teachers can escort them and handle the record-keeping. "With all of the cutbacks we've had in the last few years, the district can't pay for someone to help check out books...