Word: william
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Daniel Webster was taught the letters of the alphabet by his mother and it is said that, when he had attained his tenth year she prophecied that he would become eminent. The first school house Webster ever entered was built of logs, and his first teacher was William Hoyt. The first time that the great statesman ever saw the Constitution of the United States, it was printed upon a cotton handkerchief, according to a fashion of the time, which he chanced to stumble upon in a country store. The evening of the day on which he thus obtained a copy...
...shown the cell where Thomas Cranmer was confined, and there I stand on the very spot where Latimer and Ridley were burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff...
...part played by these soldiers on the battle fields of the war, would reflect credit on the most perfectly disciplined and experienced soldiers of history. Many of them became famous. Robert G. Shaw, and William F. Bartlett are names well known to every student of the civil war. There are many others of scarcely less renown. Many of these brave sons of Harvard never returned to their homes in the North. Memorial Hall is a lasting testimony to the patriotism and gallant death of one hundred and thirty-five. It is indeed impressive, at every Commencement to note the vacant...
...William Henry Bishop, well known as a writer, has gathered several of his short stories, which laws appeared in the different magazines, into book form under the title, Coy Susan and Other Stories. The volume is a handy one and the stories, as a rule, abound in good description's of men and places, making it a good book to read at old moments...
...College of William and Mary divides with Harvard the claim of antiquity on this continent. Seventeen days before the days of John Harvard, in 1619, money was raised and land appropriated for a college, when a massacre by the Indians prevented its establishment...