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...team of Boston-area all-star ruggers, led by four Harvard players, squeaked by the Beacon Hill Rugby Club, current New England Club Champions, 12-10 in a hard-fought match on Sunday...
With seconds remaining in the contest, the all-stars moved the club side back to its one-yard line before Harvard's Rickie Kief pounced on an errant Beacon Hill pass to tie the score at ten. A fortunate bounce off the right upright on Harvard's Charles W.A. Bott's conversion attempt provided the collegians with the margin of victory...
Frozen in bronze, the black infantrymen trudge forever forward, their rifles scraping the metaled sky. On horseback alongside them, stern, proud, aristocratic, rides their young colonel, Robert Gould Shaw. Here, just across from the gold-domed statehouse, Shaw led the North's first black regiment down Beacon Street and off to war. "The very flower of grace and chivalry," John Greenleaf Whittier wrote of Shaw's departure, "he seemed to me beautiful and awful, as an angel of God come down to lead the host of freedom to victory...
Less than two months after the march down Beacon Street, the cause of truth brought Shaw and his men to the beach beneath Fort Wagner, which guarded the harbor entrance to Charleston. Shaw volunteered to lead the attack. Perhaps he was rash. Perhaps his commanders regarded his troops as fodder, expendable. Intelligence reports claimed that Shaw's 600 men outnumbered the defenders 2 to 1. Exactly the reverse was true. Even after a heavy Union bombardment, Confederate soldiers remained strongly entrenched behind their palmetto barriers. As darkness fell on July 18, 1863, Shaw spoke quietly to his troops...
That same spirit echoed through Beacon Hill's venerable Athenaeum one snow-swept evening this past winter as more than 500 Bostonians gathered to launch a campaign to raise $125,000 to "save the Shaw." John D. O'Bryant, black president of the Boston school committee, quoted Washington's 1897 speech and added: "In all truth, we have been slow to learn the lesson of that...