Word: deaded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Poor Times is dead, that wretched hoax...
...these features of our national life, and, as he has a perfect right to do, states the grounds of his objections. With regard to Decoration Day, he admits that "it commemorates in a tender and touching way the valor and devotion of brave men who are dead"; but objects to the public celebration of the day, because it has a tendency, as he affirms, to keep alive the memory of the late war, "and of all its concomitants...
...classical studies, some system of professional instruction corresponding to the Real Schulen of the Germans, we should not see so many useless individuals, so many fruits secs as they are called. We should find advantage in having the mass of our young men, instead of pursuing exclusively the dead languages, learning the living ones; instead of comparing Latin orations, perfecting themselves in the study of French; instead of giving themselves up to the indolent and fruitless exercise of making Latin verses, devoting themselves to the study of the sciences. Our national education is too aristocratic, not practical enough...
Charging among the dead and dying...
Points out this lonely haven of the dead...