Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beautiful daughter of an innkeeper, who precipitated a historic scandal in Andrew Jackson's Administration. A widow, vivacious Peggy was for years the reputed mistress of Tennessee's Democratic Senator John Henry Eaton. Because there was a frightful flutter of gossip hovering over the pair, President-elect Jackson urged Eaton to "go marry her at once and shut their mouths." After Jackson appointed Eaton his Secretary of War, the gossip only worsened, and capital society, led by the wife of Vice President John Calhoun, barred Peggy from Washington's drawing rooms. Calhoun and Jackson bitterly split...
Deputy after Deputy pleaded with Adenauer to reconsider. Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag, said bluntly: "Herr Chancellor, none of your arguments sound convincing." Rasped Adenauer: "If you don't like my decision, you are free to elect another Chancellor...
...punishment, but also as a kind of disease, creating a condition for which eternal punishment is merited and just. "It is certain," wrote Calvin, "that in our body and soul there is in the eyes of God nothing but repulsive filth." But in his mercy, God has elected to save some by giving them the grace to believe in Christ, and through that faith to be justified and raised to eternal life. This is all God's doing; nothing man or church can do can save one who is not among God's predestined elect...
President Pusey conferred Doctor of Laws degrees on His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston; C. Douglas Dillon '31, U.S. Under-secretary of State; State Department "trouble shooter" Robert D. Murphy; Ada Louise Comstock Notestein, President of Radcliffe College from 1923-43; M.I.T President-Elect Julius A. Stratton; and Sidney J. Weinberg, a New York investment banker...
Whether the Class of 1959 will be the last Class to elect Marshals remains to be seen. Nonetheless, the internal dissension of the Class of '59 after the Marshal elections was the most tangible manifestation of the breakdown of the Class as a meaningful unit. The Class of '59 marked yet another turning point in the history of Harvard Classes. It became immortalized by being the last class to hold a Freshman Smoker. Although special precautions were made, '59's Smoker proved too hectic for University Hall. As Dean Von Stade tersely reported to the Dean of the Faculty...