Word: commander
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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ORAL DISCUSSIONS.English VI. The question for today will be : "Resolved, That it was expedient to remove General McClellan from the command of the Army of the Potomac...
...bill now pending before Congress to allow members of the Cabinet on the floor for purposes of speech, should be passed." Affirmative - Rogers, Whiting and Keep. Negative - Webb, Allen and Delafield. Decided in the negative. The subject for next time is, "Resolved, That the dismissal of Gen. McClellan from command in November, 1862, was expedient." Affirmative - Putnam, Eaton, W. H. Dunbar. Negative - Cheney, Hubbard, Sewall...
...their own engagements, is very natural and easily understood. We are in the immediate vicinity of a great city, renowned for its social and literary brilliancy; a city with magnificent theatres and music-halls, and art galleries which receive the latest gems from foreign studios; we have at our command the best libraries in America, and with such opportunities as these, we do not feel the necessity of the old traditional college life, which contained much that is nonsensical and harmful. Many, too, are within a few hours' ride of home, and spend a good portion of their time away...
Disengaging her hand from his throat, Bob assured her in as calm a tone as he could command under the trying circumstances, that he was not "her own," and he also would be greatly obliged to her if she would not "have him once more" again. After hesitating a moment, she evidently concluded not to, and resumed her seat...
These are the worst specimens of student poetry, and I wonder why the editors of the college papers ever let them get into their columns. If such as these appear in print, what stuff must the editorial waste-baskets contain! Undergraduate poets seem to have a poor command of language, and this gives rise to repetitions, and gives an air of awkwardness and carelessness to many of their compositions; we often find words put in merely for rhymes or to fill out the stanza, and a general lack of careful revision is painfully evident. I have noticed that the last...