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...political thesis which maintained that the Federal Government was usurping rights inherent to the individual states. Calhoun's protest was inspired by the high tariff law of 1828. Later the tariff problem was swallowed up in the secession issue and the state rights doctrine temporarily crumbled at Gettysburg and Appomattox Court House...
...large library prove this. Editions aged anywhere from 5 to 50 years are yellowed, brittle, flimsy to the touch. They are printed on wood-pulp paper which ages swiftly. But where editions containing accounts of the Battle of the Marne have already become illegible, editions narrating the Battle of Gettysburg, though handled far longer, remain strong and unfaded. They are on paper made from rags...
...answer to this question is to be found in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and a hundred other memorial speeches. It stands out so clearly that it is overlooked while exploring in obscure corners. At intervals men need rededication to the better; finer, more courageous elements in life and long experience has shown that formal, public expression of tribute to men who have stood outstandingly for these things is a psychologically sound means to that end. Those of us who have, in the preparation of this memorial issue, studied Eliot's life and work, and thus indirectly gained contact with them...
...judgment seems to have been justified, to express the matter mildly. In 1897 his team beat Harvard, Cornell, Carlisle, Wesleyan, Brown, Lafayette, Pennsylvania State, Dartmouth, Virginia, Lehigh, Bucknell (twice), Franklin and Marshall, Washington and Jefferson, and Gettysburg. The team won all 15 games played, scoring 517 points to opponents...
...President Coolidge-to set aside 20 vaults of the proposed $2,000,000 Archives Building in order to preserve for posterity historical films. Spokesman Coolidge expressed himself as favorably impressed with the idea, pointed out how educational it would be if this generation could observe President Lincoln delivering his Gettysburg address. The little man, no stranger to Presidents, was Movie Monarch Will H. Hays and as he walked the grounds of White Pine Camp, he seemed strangely pleased...