Word: downes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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More important events followed. Grant, Sherman and Buell were soon advancing upon Fort Henry, which guarded the Tennessee river. Halleck, as usual, was afrald and undecided, but Grant with 17,000 men, aided by Commodore Foote with seven gun-boats, swooped down on Foote with seven gun-boats, swooped down...
"A Point of Knucklin' Down." A Christamas Story. Ella Higginson.
At this period, late in life, Moliere was suffering from the disease which eventually caused his death. He was almost broken down by ceaseless mental labor. He was unhappy in his home relations as well, embittered by family quarrels.
I wish the undergraduates could know the feeling toward Harvard which exists down town among men who didn't go to college. Her name coupled with athletics is a laughing-stock. What is worse, owing to the present prominence of athletics, the name of Harvard as a university, from constant...
Year after year Harvard has gone to Springfield confident of success. The papers have sounded a note of triumph and the freshmen have put up all their money; and year by year-with one glorious exception-we have come back beaten. But we have not been utterly cast down. Oh...