Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the graduating Class of 1948, they are: Alma Cecile Benson of Middletown, Connecticut; Janice Alerta Berg of Brookline; Amy Ruth Cline of Brookline; Helene Pauline Katz of New York City; Sara Murdock Steinberg of Cambridge; Gladys Marilyn Susman of Brookline; Helen Bryna Wiseman of Mattapan; and Sandra Lee Wool of Uniontown, Pennsylvania...
Miss Mary Lee, Radcliffe '17, presided at the initiation exercises...
Dirty Foreigners. Two years of fighting had separated North from South with deep, bitter emotions. When youthful John Dooley, a Virginian soldier, compared the "dignified but most courteous" appearance of his hero, General Lee, with the sullen demeanor of the frightened citizens of Pennsylvania, he simply concluded that the Unionists were as different from the Confederates as another "race of people." So it seemed, also, to Gettysburg Housewife Sallie Broadhead, as she watched Lee's vanguard outside her house. The Southerners were "a miserable-looking set" of alien monsters with a "traitor's flag" who pranced barefoot...
Polkas & Waltzes. When tomorrow dawned, Colonel Sir Arthur Fremantle, British observer with the Confederate Army, was sitting in the top of a tree, looking out over the field. Under the same tree sat Generals Robert E. Lee and A. P. Hill, planning the day's action and "assisting their deliberations by the truly American custom of whittling sticks." Shells and bullets began to hiss and whine once more; but in his Gettysburg garden Sallie Broadhead's husband doggedly "picked a mess of beans . . . [and] persevered until he had picked all, for he declared the Rebels should not have...
...Fault." After Pickett's charge had failed and the most optimistic Southerner knew that the Confederates had lost the day, General Lee, "the saddest man in the Army of Northern Virginia," passed among his retreating, exhausted men, begging them to keep their ranks and assuring them: "It was my fault this time." He saw an aide lashing at a balky horse and begged: "Oh, don't do that. I once had a foolish horse and I found gentle measures so much the best." Sir Arthur Fremantle found Confederate General Longstreet sitting glumly on a fence and said tactlessly...