Word: beacons
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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...
First, President Bok ventured to Beacon Hill, where he informed a taxation committee that the state's independent colleges and universities could not afford to lose their tax-exempt status. Tuitions would increase if the universities helped to bail out cities like Cambridge that are being crushed by Proposition 2 1/2, he said...
About 16 of the remaining 45 rental tenants decided Sunday to bring their complaints to the board, which is considering a $100 rent increase requested by the owner. Saul Moffie of Beacon Hill, Gilbert Mason, a tenant, said yesterday...
...more likely outcome, they say, is that cities will indeed be forced to make massive layoffs and cutbacks; only in the wake of those actions will public opinion wrest relief or reform from Beacon Hill...