Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Copeland will deliver a brief address on Edgar Allan Poe in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet, in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. He will also read "The Black Cat" and several of Poe's poems. "The Black Cat" is one of the most striking of Poe's short stories. The rapidity of the action, the deliberateness with which the most grewsome and revolting details are described, and the sudden climax unite in producing a story of tremendous power. The reading will be open to members...
...commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, Mr. Copeland will deliver a short address on the poet, and will read "The Black Cat" and some of Poe's poems, in the Dining Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 9 o'clock. The reading will be open to members of the Union only...
...later he went back to the front and was killed at Glendale. Stephen Perkins '56 was pleasant and witty, a brilliant student, standing at the head of his class in College. He was shot in the battle of Cedar Mountain. Robert Shaw '60 was given command of the first black regiment, the success of which was largely due to his energy and ability. He was killed in the battle of Fort Wagner and was buried with his black soldiers...
...Allen '10, George Emerson Lowell S. L. Andrew '10, Harvard College E. Angell '11, Harvard College R. E. Bagnall '11, Harvard College W. H. Barber '11, Burr D. C. Barton '11, Daniel A. Buckley S. A. Beggs '10, Harvard College F. B. Biddle '09, Harvard College L. F. Black '09, Harvard College E. A. Boyden '09, Harvard College G. Bradford, 3d, '10, Harvard College R. E. Brady '09, Bassett F. A. Brewer '10, Harvard College L. W. Brooke '09, Class of 1883 T. J. Brown '10, Price Greenleaf Fund R. Brunel '11, Bright F. H. Burr '09, Harvard College...
...proved to have been foolish and unnecessary. It is for the purpose of going on with the work of preserving the banners, as soon as the experiments warrant, that we are reserving this surplus fund. Taken all in all, then, I do not think that we are as black as your correspondent paints us. At the same time I welcome his criticism for the excuse it gives me to put the aims of the Trophy Room Committee before the College. It gives point, too, to the old adage that it is well to look before you leap...