His studies were interrupted when he was enlisted into the Army, which sent him to frankfert,germany.…
After the war Tommy returned home and went back to school, entering Bishop Field College in…
He earned his dental degree in 1904 when he went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. -- and where he also played four more years of college baseball.…
| |College he was drafted to go to war on August 14, 1968. He returned on March |…
In September of 1892, he traveled to Birmingham, AL to teach there.The job did not pay well and he moved on to work in a pipes plant. When he was…
He became a captain at the age of 21. He went to Eton for collage. He was in the French and Indian war as a young general. He went to America in 1756.…
trained with his men for two months on the William and Mary camp. During that…
On January 25, 1938, he was arrested for questionable reasons and sentenced to probation. In 1938, Robinson was elected to the All-Southland Junior College baseball team. On February 4, 1939, he played his last basketball game at Pasadena Junior College. After leaving Pasadena Junior College, Robinson attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the first athlete to letter in four sports, which was baseball, basketball, football, and track. He withdrew from the University for financial reasons in 1941. (3) Robinson then went on to play football for the semi-professional, racially integrated Honolulu Bears. (5) He returned shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was drafted into the military after the following year.…
on November 10, 1885 Hoover left Iowa to live with his uncle John Minthorn in Oregon and he went to friends Pacific Academy. herbert didn't go to high school but did work in the office of Oregon land company in the office while going to school at the capital business college. on October 1, 1891 Hoover went to Stanford university in a pioneer class. later on Hoover graduated from Stanford with a degree in…
to a military academy. After graduating he went back to his hometown to attend to the…
After his release and the end of the war he was elected Governor of Georgia. His governor was short lived because the people thought he would better serve the people by continuing in congress to help found the United States. After his time in congress he was again elected Governor of Georgia. He served multiple terms as governor. He spent his time after the war serving his state but when called upon his country. When he felt the effects of age take hold of him he decided to live in Augusta, Georgia and started farming. The influence to lead and better those around him caught up to him and he became a trustee of the University of…
In Oregon Hoover attended a school called Friends Pacific Academy in Newberg. Hoover was not a very strong student. He barely passed all of his classes and when it came time to apply to college his teachers…
Many things make contributions to any individual piece if work, with those elements added together the end result is usually a refined literary work that will have appeal to the right audience. James Thurber put together a story that has used as much imagination as possible. As most have seen or read stories that include people that were unique of sorts the character here is very much so as you are able to read of a grown man that does a lot of day dreaming…
Theodore first settled in New York with his newly wedded wife. He enrolled in Columbine University, attempting to pursue a higher degree in law. Theodore later dropped out to write a book entitled “The Naval War of 1812”. Eventually, he developed a passion for politics, and in 1881, was elected as a Republican to the “The New York Assembly”.…
James Thurber is an American author who has a very unique sense of humor, using events and references from his childhood. On December 8, 1894, self-described “night of the wild portent”, Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Mary Thurber gave birth to their second child, James Grover Thurber, in Columbus Ohio. He came into the world with one older brother named William. He later had a younger brother named Robert. No one knew at that time that Thurber was going to grow up to be one very funny writer… but one never knows. When he was young his father worked many different jobs and went through many periods of unemployment, but for the most part Charles Thurber led the hum-drum life of a civil clerk. His middle son was going to have a very different kind of life. In 1901, the Thurber family moved to Falls Church, Virginia which was near Washington D.C.…