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Washington's Birthday

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Title: Washington's Birthday
Author: Various
Release Date: February 22, 2005 [eBook #15140]
Language: English
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Our American Holidays
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
Its History, Observance, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse, with a Selection from Washington's Speeches and Writings
Edited by
ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER
New York Dodd, Mead and Company

PREFACE
The popular idea of Washington has recently begun to veer away from the vision of an eighteenth century demigod in a wig,--an old-fashioned statue in dusky bronze, stern and forbidding. We are swinging around toward the idea of a loveable, fallible, very human personality with humor, a hot temper, and a genuine love of pleasure.
Accordingly, in gathering material for this book the editor has passed by those earlier writers who are mainly responsible for this distorted view; and he has aimed to gather here the essays, orations poems, stories, and exercises which best exhibit the modern conception of Washington; together with a selection from his own writings and the finest of the elder tributes to the memory of our greatest National Hero.
NOTE
The Editor and Publishers wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to Houghton, Mifflin & Company; Doubleday, Page & Company; J.B. Lippincott & Co.; Mr. David McKay, John Macy, and others who have very kindly granted permission to reprint selections from works bearing their copyright.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I THE DAY
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Oliver Wendell Holmes WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY _Margaret E. Sangster_ THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON Anonymous WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY George Howland WASHINGTON AND OUR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES _Charles W. Eliot_ CROWN OUR WASHINGTON Hezekiah Butterworth WASHINGTON-MONTH Will Carleton II EARLY YEARS
A GLIMPSE OF WASHINGTON'S BIRTHPLACE _Grace B. Johnson_ SOMETHING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BOYHOOD Anonymous WASHINGTON'S TRAINING Charles Wentworth Upham WASHINGTON AS HE LOOKED
III THE GENERAL
WASHINGTON IS APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Sydney George Fisher WASHINGTON AT TRENTON Richard Watson Gilder GEORGE WASHINGTON VALLEY FORGE Henry Armitt Brown WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE _Canon R.G. Sutherland_ A FRENCHMAN'S ESTIMATE OF WASHINGTON IN 1781 _Claude C. Robin_
IV THE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON AND THE CONSTITUTION _John M. Harlan_ WASHINGTON'S ADMINISTRATION _Edward S. Ellis_ WASHINGTON Mary Wingate WASHINGTON'S INAUGURATION Edward Everett Hale WASHINGTONIANA LESSONS FROM THE WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL _George A. Gordon_ PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S RECEPTIONS William Sullivan THE FOREIGN POLICY OF WASHINGTON Charles James Fox V LAST DAYS
GEORGE WASHINGTON Hamilton Wright Mabie WASHINGTON'S LAST DAYS Elisabeth Eggleston Seelye THE MOUNT VERNON TRIBUTE THE WORDS OF WASHINGTON Daniel Webster VI TRIBUTES
MEMORIALS OF WASHINGTON _Henry B. Carrington_ FROM THE "COMMEMORATION ODE" Harriet Monroe WASHINGTON'S STATUE Henry Theodore Tuckerman TRIBUTES WASHINGTON'S NAME IN THE HALL OF FAME _Margaret E. Sangster_ ESTIMATES OF WASHINGTON WASHINGTON'S RELIGIOUS CHARACTER _William M'Kinley_ WASHINGTON Anonymous VII WASHINGTON'S PLACE IN HISTORY
THE HIGHEST PEDESTAL _William E. Gladstone_ WASHINGTON IN HISTORY _Chauncey M. Depew_ TO THE SHADE OF WASHINGTON Richard Alsop THE MAJESTIC EMINENCE OF WASHINGTON _Chauncey M. Depew_ FOR A LITTLE PUPIL Anonymous WASHINGTON'S FAME Asher Robbins WASHINGTON, THE BRIGHTEST NAME ON HISTORY'S PAGE Eliza Cook WASHINGTON, THE PATRIOT
VIII THE WHOLE MAN
GEORGE WASHINGTON John Hall Ingham HISTORICAL MEMORABILIA OF WASHINGTON _H.B. Carrington_ A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF WASHINGTON Henry Mitchell MacCracken THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON Daniel Webster MOUNT VERNON, THE HOME OF WASHINGTON William Day THE UNSELFISHNESS OF WASHINGTON Robert Treat Paine THE GENIUS OF WASHINGTON _Edwin P. Whipple_ WASHINGTON'S SERVICE TO EDUCATION _Charles W.E. Chapin_ ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT _John W. Daniel_ THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON Henry Cabot Lodge IX ANECDOTES AND STORIES
ANECDOTES OF WASHINGTON THE ABUSE OF WASHINGTON Thomas Wentworth Higginson PROVIDENTIAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON Irving Allen CHARACTERISTICS OF WASHINGTON GREAT GEORGE WASHINGTON _Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith_ HEADQUARTERS IN 1776 Paul Leicester Ford X SELECTIONS FROM WASHINGTON'S SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
SELECTIONS FROM THE RULES OF CIVILITY SAID BY WASHINGTON WASHINGTON BEFORE THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND, AUGUST, 1776 FROM VARIOUS LETTERS, SPEECHES, AND ADDRESSES WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL TO THE ARMY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S RESPONSE TO THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON RECEIPT OF THE COLORS OF FRANCE, 1769 WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS
XI EXERCISES
DECORATIONS FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY EXERCISES SOME YEARS IN WASHINGTON'S LIFE _M. Lizzie Stanley_ SOMETHING BETTER _Clara J. Denton_ THE STATES CROWNING WASHINGTON Kate Bowles Sherwood THE NEW GEORGE WASHINGTON Anonymous IN PRAISE OF WASHINGTON

INTRODUCTION
A good deal of American history was once violently distorted by the partisanship of the eighteenth century, frozen solid by its icy formalism, and left thus for the edification of succeeding generations. For example, it was not until 1868 that Franklin's Autobiography was by accident given to the world