Word: forte
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fact, we can conceive of no higher pleasure of the kind than tracing out the locality of Hawthorne's famous "Town Pump," Longfellow's "Wayside Inn," Copp's Hill or the Old Granary Burying-Ground, Church Green, Webster's, Franklin's, or Hancock's old mansions. The razing of Fort Hill; the loss of the famous Brattle Street Church, with its British cannon-ball buried in its face; of the Paddock elms; of that perfect monument of Colonial architecture, the Hancock House, have changed Boston much from the honest provincial town it was in "Ye Olden Tyme"; but Faneuil Hall...
...every paper speaks of it. The price of the board was extortionate, and the quality was very poor. The meat was sent from the West to Harvard in barrels. From other sources we learn that the meat was bought of a certain landowner or farmer near a place called Fort Sill. Great corruption at one time prevailed in regard to this meat-supply, and one of the highest officials of the national government was involved...
...three generations: it beats Malthus!) fought on the wrong side and had a commission from his majesty King George. But when I see the very identical earthworks thrown up by the Americans, and the spot where the British marched up and the Americans marched down; where the American fort bombarded the British fleet, and the British fleet bombarded the American fort; and where many other memorable things occurred (all of which are related in the guide-book), my feelings make ample amends for the defection of my red-coated ancestor. My enthusiasm for everything revolutionary or colonial is something extraordinary...
...Beacon Cup was won by the Harvard six; President Eliot - then tutor - pulling No. 3, and Mr. Agassiz bow. This, I think, was the first time of Harvard's pulling a shell. She won in 19.22, beating several Boston crews, - the Fort Hill Boy (2d, in 21.20), the James Buchanan, Shamrock, Sterling, Thistle...
...March contains the beginning of a series of articles entitled, "A Hundred Years ago," which will form a most interesting chronicle of the events whose centennial anniversaries are approaching. Trollope's serial is continued. Mr. Scudder has a most ingeniously absurd story; and "The Class of '71," "The Fort Fisher Expedition," and some mediocre poetry fill up the number...