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Next in order of merit we would select "The Blue and the Grey," a story of the Civil War. That familiar piece of fiction which has for its theme the young southern officer, carrying despatches amid impossible difficulties, the Battle of Gettysburg and the tiresome elaboration about the relative positions of the opposing forces, is here, held up to a heavy barrage of ridicule. This sarcasm in turn is directed against the detective story of today in "Who do You Thing Did It? or The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery"--only the final outcome is not in accordance with the usual...
Lincoln's Gettysburg address, in the handwriting of Lincoln himself, will reside in the library of the University. Senator Henry W. Keyes '87 announced the fact in the Senate on Lincoln's Birthday after he had read the document. Lincoln wrote the manuscript out from his notes shortly after his return from Gettysburg. This was at the request of Edward Everett, of the class of 1811, who had expressed to Lincoln his admiration of the speech. The document is bound handsomely into one volume with a copy of Everett's address at the National Cemetery in 1863 and a letter...
...little over fifty years ago President Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg of those who had so recently fought with arms in their hands against the Constitution of the United States, and his words were of goodness and mercy for those who had been his deadly enemies. President Wilson has been likened to Lincoln frequently. He, too, has spoken at various times and places of persons opposed to him, particularly of those senators who are maintaining the Constitution against the new personally conducted League of Nations, and thus presuming to block his ends. It began last February, after the evening...
...those who died in the Civil War. From now on it will be even more a day on which we shall commemorate the sacrifice of our countrymen's lives in the Great War. We take pride in our grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fell on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam, and on each May 30 we are newly thrilled by the memory of those men who fought for Union and Democracy between 1861 and 1865. The pride and the thrill will be many, many times greater tomorrow when we celebrate the glorious deaths of our classmates and friends...
...reminder it may be said that the Anglo-Saxon and his near kin have more than a bit of the "Hang on!" spirit which turns defeat into victory. The defence of Lucknow, the fight of the Bon Homme Richard, the squares at Waterloo, the Alamo, the peach orchard at Gettysburg, are examples of a spirit in which the American soldier has a share by inheritance direct, or by acquired collateral interest through adoption of our ideals and our citizenship. This trait of blood and breeding has been called upon in the present war; it will be called upon again, many...