Word: general
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leisure, it is not merely an amusement, but an occupation. The morning is creditably begun by swearing at the weather, prayers, and first-hour recitations; as the day advances, lunch, gymnasium, and dinner come in for a fair share of abuse; and the evening is consistently closed with a general grumble...
This question was answered negatively by Judge Devens, and more particularly by General Bartlett. These gentlemen sustained their position by announcing the principle, - that it is the spirit not the cause, which makes the glory of fighting; Southerners, they held, would feel no mortification from the erection of the hall, for they would appreciate that those in whose memory it was built, though they fought against the South, did so from principle; the Southerners too, being actuated by a like principle, would deserve and receive like praise; it was not principle, but the mere circumstance of living in Massachusetts...
...class of '33, to write to the Nation, pointing out that it would be but consistent with this principle to put up tablets in Memorial Hall to Harvard graduates who had fallen on the Confederate side also. The Nation replied, though indorsing the ground taken by Judge Devens and General Bartlett, "To put up tablets .... to persons whom its builders do not reverence or love - i.e. the Southern dead - would be a kind of absurdity difficult to describe, if it were not an act of hypocrisy...
...Nation said, it is to a great degree a question of feeling, and we must remember feeling has changed since then. We have gone along with marvellous strides in the last two years. Celebrations like that on the 17th of last June, and speeches like those of General Sherman and Fitzhugh Lee, have materially altered our feelings towards the South. The Nation's language was, therefore, the language of 1874, prompted by feeling rather than by reason, as it confesses. Now, in 1876, feeling as well as reason would sustain it in speaking otherwise...
...esteem too for the Southern dead. The College has received, officially acknowledged, and hung in Memorial Hall a photograph of the monument to the Confederate soldiers at Charleston. What course of reasoning justifies the placing of this picture in our hall to the memory of the Southern dead in general, and excludes from the same hall tablets commemorative of that part of the Southern dead for which we ought to have the most regard, our own graduates...