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The Way We Were: A History Of Student Life At Gettysburg College 1832-1982, Anna Jane Moyer
The Way We Were: A History Of Student Life At Gettysburg College 1832-1982, Anna Jane Moyer
College History Publications
In writing The Way We Were: A History of Student Life at Gettysburg College, 1832-1982, it has been my purpose to capture what it was like to be a student at Gettysburg as the changing patterns of that life evolved and shifted with the growth of the College and events in the world outside the campus. Space confines impose perimeters. No attempt has been made to detail the history of organizations or to include many of the names of persons involved in campus leadership. The role of athletics has been mentioned only briefly as two monographs in the History …
Daniel Webster And The Crisis Of The Union, 1850, Michael J. Birkner
Daniel Webster And The Crisis Of The Union, 1850, Michael J. Birkner
History Faculty Publications
The weather that January evening, 132 years ago, complicated the old man's plans, but failed to keep him at home. It was January 21, 1850, and snow was falling heavily in the nation's capital. This was not a night for casual travel, but Henry Clay, seventy-two years of age and in faltering health, was not venturing from his rooms in Washington for light exercise or socializing. He was heading, alone, several blocks away to the home of Daniel Webster on Louisiana Avenue, and his mission had the most portentous overtones. Clay meant to enlist Webster - his ally, rival, and …