Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Many of you are about to choose professions. It is highly necessary for you to consider what attributes you possess. If you are emotional and impressionable, you possess histrionic attributes. If you are impressive, embrace oratory and become statesmen, lawyers, preachers...
...compared the past record of the Senate, in which almost every president and all our greatest statesmen have at sometime sat, with that of the governors of our states chosen by popular vote. The United States Senate for the past 100 years has been the best seond chamber on the earth. His manner and delivery created a very favorable impression...
...Harvard graduates; Longfellow and Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin; Bryant studied at Williams; Whittier did not go to college. Of two painters, J. S. Copley and W. M. Hunt, the latter belonged to Harvard; and of three clergymen, Channing and Brooks graduated at Harvard, and Jonathan Edwards at Yale. Among statesmen are Pickering, John and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Everett, and Sumner of Harvard, Choate and Webster of Dartmouth, Andrew of Bowdoin, and Henry Wilson. The law is represented by Parsons, Shaw, Story and Allen, all but the last, whose selection has been criticised, being Harvard alumni. The Revolutionary generals...
Calhoun, J. C. Statesmen Series, p. 114. Forebodings of Calhoun as to effect of Jackson's Spoils System...
...second speaker for Yale was Herbert H. Kellogg. He said that cabinet membership in the House would restore the constitutional balance between executive and the legislature There would be an advantage in having members who would be responsible to no constituencies and abler statesmen would be appointed to cabinet offices...