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...University. The essential point is to keep the office close at hand in Harvard square, delivery service and all. The statement of the postmaster, therefore, that, even though there be but one office, it will remain in this neighborhood, is perfectly satisfactory. It only remains to be on the lookout lest further developments occasion a change in the present purpose of the Department...
...first thing was to open a line of communication to the besieged force. This was most adroitly accomplished by Gen. W. F. Smith, who planned a new road, crossing the river twice, and passing just out of reach of the Confederate guns on Lookout Mountain to Bridgewater, the terminus of the Northern railroad. A footing was secretly gained on the hills commanding this line, much to Bragg's chagrin, and supplies soon poured...
...letter. With unrivalled skill, Sherman made a long detour, and, wholly unexpected, gained a strong foothold on Bragg's right. Thom as also advanced and took a firm stand on the foot-hills. It was then, profiting by Bragg's confusion, that Hooker made his brilliant capture of Lookout Mountain. His troops had to move painfully around the edge of the mountain from west to east, before they could so much as find a place for ascent. At last they reached a winding cart-track, and up they went, until the clouds hid the death-struggle from the watchers...
...this character he wrote his essay on Keats, which gives such pleasure to lovers of Keats, and his essay on Shelley, which gives less pleasure to the friends of Shelley. Arnold was an ideal educator. He liked to go about among the schools, and he was ever on the lookout for defects in the methods of teaching. He made the greatest mistake of his critical career when he lauded Shelley's letters to the skies, saying that they would long outlive his poetry. Arnold says of himself that there was in him a good, definite streak of the Philistine...
...year breakfast was served on the dining car. At 10.30 the train reached the Detroit River and every body left the car to watch the process of being ferried to the Canadian side. Men were every where, on the tops of the cars, on the pilot house, on the lookout. As they neared the Canadian side they sand "God Save the Queen" some reverently, some mock-reverently. All that day there was no excitement till the train reached Niagara Falls just at dusk. Even in the fading light the sight was magnificent and as the men stood on the railroad...