Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edmund Burke as orator and statesman...
...Prof. N. S. Shaler ; volumes in the "American Men of Letter Series" on Hawthorne, by Prof Lowell, on Emerson, by Dr. Holmes, on Margaret Fuller, by F. W. Higginson, and on Franklin, by McMaster, author of the recently published History of the United States; and in the "American Statesman Series" on Henry Clay, by Carl Schurz and on Patrick Henry, by Prof. Moses Coit Tyler. The edition de luxe of Prof. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads is also promised soon. "Yankee Doodle," the Poem recently read before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, by Robert Grant, and Charles Francis...
...unexpected happened and he still remains in the rhapsody of after dinner oratory. I was yesterday misled by his example to say that in case of a certain athletic event I should want to leave the banks of the river on which it should happen; but like the statesman of Massachusetts I have changed my mind. I shall stay by this river until Yale is Victorians, even if I remain a thousand and one years to come-and I fear that if Yale does not change that unfortunate stroke I shall be waiting here until the odd year arrives." After...
...eighth volume of "The American Statesman" series, Daniel Webster, by Henry Cabot Lodge, has just appeared...
...article in the Student and Statesman entitled "A Defence of College Athletics," an abstract of which is given on our first page, is a valuable contribution to the discussion in regard to the value of inter-collegiate sports. The writer takes up a phase of the question which has thus far in the discussion received far too little attention. As he says in the introduction to his article, writers on both sides of the question have up to this time made the false assumption that very few men receive benefit from inter-collegiate athletics. It is natural...