Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...invade Maryland, and thus draw McClellan away from Washington, his base of supplies. Accordingly Lee crossed the upper Potomac and concentrated at Frederick City. McClellan then marched slowly toward him. Meanwhile Lee sent several detachments to capture a garrison of about 11,000 men at Harper's Ferry; but kept most of his men strung along the Blue Ridge...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In the beginning of the year, the instructor in sophomore themes conceived the commendable idea of passing the themes round to the students for perusal and criticism. This was to have been kept up throughout the year, unless it proved too complicated. One set of themes was thus distributed, and no more. That was all. No word of explanation was offered in regard to the sudden change. Now, there is no doubt that most of the criticisms were absurd and severe, and probably did neither the writer nor the men of whose work it was written...
...filling the entire body of Sanders Theatre assembled last evening to listen to the recital of one of the most remarkable campaigns of the Civil war, and it was given with such grace and ease, combined with thorough knowledge of the situation, that the attention of the audience was kept at a high degree of interest. Many amusing incidents and patriotic references were cited, which kept the audience in pleasant communion with the speaker. Major Hotchkiss began by stating that there are three things in a campaign that are important. 1. The topography of the field of action. 2. Purposes...
...worthy reason why prayers as at present conducted should be opposed; they are not prayers. There is but one thing essential to their being defensible; that they become prayers. If the men who established them had been told - "These prayers will be a mere roll-call, a practice kept up for fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained to believe that those devout...
...whether funny or not. In such a paper the humor could be better, for there would be less need of making it to order to fill up a certain number of columns; while the best features of the "Advocate," those which are not preserved in the "Monthly," would be kept. Such a paper, an ideal exponent of the lighter side of student life, if well conducted; could not fall to be a greater success than either the "Advocate" or the "Lampoon" now are, and a greater credit to the editors. The process of evolution here has been going...