Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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While the northern soldier was aided in material things he was also supported by the thought that his family was far away from harm, sure of aid in case of his death, while the Confederate was battling almost on his own hearth, his family and loved ones daily exposed to the shock of battle and defenceless at his death. The southerner, too, was not fighting for a government, but for his property, slaves and traditional honor...
...contempt of their friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with he thought "a good many nice fellows who cheat now would stop." This man was a gentleman himself, prominent in athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak...
...propagandist of liberal ideas, he wandered over Russia for ten years. He had seen with pitying eye the misery and suffering of his native land under the despotic rule of the Czar. He had followed his own brother, banished without trial, in his weary march to Siberia, until driven away from the band of exiles by the brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take his degree, and then to wander again as a physician and propagandist among the peasants of Russia. Another remarkable man was a Jew, from Southern Russia. He had been arrested for publishing...
...know, unless he misunderstands us more than even his letter would indicate, that to nine-tenths of us a compulsory service is utterly distasteful and wrong. We know better than Dr. Hale what effect this service is having on the college. We know better than he that seniors go away from Harvard without religious belief, and with only a bitter hate and contempt in their hearts for the methods employed here to make them "moral." We know better than he what a spiritual waste and loss our present system carries with it. The taste of Dead Sea apples is very...
...September 2nd, 1862, Lee was within a few miles of Washington where McClellan was quartered with the Union army. Lee formed a plan to invade Maryland, and thus draw McClellan away from Washington, his base of supplies. Accordingly Lee crossed the upper Potomac and concentrated at Frederick City. McClellan then marched slowly toward him. Meanwhile Lee sent several detachments to capture a garrison of about 11,000 men at Harper's Ferry; but kept most of his men strung along the Blue Ridge...