Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Today the freshman nine plays its first game with a school nine of acknowledged reputation. The time when the train leaves Boston gives all the freshmen a chance to go to Quincy and support their nine in a hearty manner. The trip is a short and inexpensive one, and a large number should accompany the nine on this first trip away from Cambridge. The '87 men are working well under the disadvantage of having no separate field, for their practice and this work deserves recognition. The nine at Adams Academy is reported to be a good one, so that...
...avail to the Southerners, who again fell back to Kensaw Mountain. This, by previous labor, had been made a regular fortress. Sherman, to encourage his troops, made an assault but could not take the main works. He had again to resort to flanking tactics. In this manner the enemy was forced back and soon the city of Atlanta was in sight. Johnston was then relieved, and Hood took his place. Hood tried by desperate attacks on three separate days to break up Sherman's forces. His efforts failed; he lost 20,000 men and was compelled to retire into...
...Atlanta, fought a crafty foreman and overcome many natured difficulties. Johnston and Hood had lost 35,000 men. Sherman refitted his army and rested for a month. Mean while Hood began to attack his communications toward Chattanooga. Sherman moved back after him and repaired the railways destroyed. In this manner, one chasing the other, the two armies had almost reached the starting point again. After corresponding with Gen. Grant, Sherman determined on his famous march to the sea with Savannah. Sending back part of his troops he kept Hood in check, He went to Atlanta and set out from there...
...tell. Several ingenious theories have been propounded but none of them adequately answer the question. It has been claimed that he is a species of bird that flies away South for the winter and comes back with his race when it becomes warmer. This theory in a most beautiful manner accounts for his semi-miraculous appearances and disappearances, but it leaves quite unanswered several physical and aesthetic problems, which are very obvious to the observer. For instance, how could any true bird of song trill out: "Say, Mister, Gimme...
McCagg and Howe, '84, sang a duet in chapel Saturday morning in a very pleasing manner...