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...large to defray even the necessary expenses of the class. Of course money is always scarce during the last two months of the Seniors year, but with the decreasing need for furniture, books, and other impedimenta, there ought to be some means somewhere for securing nourishment for the frail class fund...
...essays on the late Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson reveal a type of Harvard man all too little known to us today. In the gentle-voiced, frail, friendly Cantabrigian who so recently died, few could have recognized the ardent lover of all that was adventurous and free; the knight-errant champion of Abolition; a man who could lead a mob and who could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual...
...knew him prized very highly his ideals and sterling character; but few, even among his intimates, realized fully the heroism with which he threw himself into this work. His health, at best, was very frail, and he well knew its frailty; but he never faltered. His courage was none the less real because it was silent and unobtrusive; and he leaves with us an enduring reverence for the brave and able fulfillment of his duty, as well as warmly affectionate memories of his kindly and sympathetic personality...
...their wisdom and courage, by confessing that we are weak and foolish, and by demonstrating our timidity? If the Fathers had lacked the moral courage to consider even the question of the practicability and desirability of framing the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation would have been accepted as a frail bond of union. A tithe of the courage and independence required of them ought to suffice for us in the duty of considering whether there should be any amendment...
Taking as his special title, "Running the Port Arthur Blockade" Mr. Emerson, with the help of excellent stereopticon views, told of his passage from Chee-foo to Port Arthur in a small, frail bark, of his reception by General Stoessel, of his expulsion from Port Arthur, and of his subsequent experiences on the Japanese side...