Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo due to Grouchy's disobedience of orders...
...junior societies, D. K. E. and Psi U., will be given some time during the spring term, and if the consent of the Faculty is given, there will be two productions of the piece. The name of the play is "Mr. Bonaparte," and the plot is a burlesque on Napoleon First, in his Russian campaign. The cast will be made up of the following men: Butter-worth, Hooker, Lee, Cooper, Taylor, H. W. Harris, and Driggs, '95; Lackland, Sage, Eagle and Curtis...
...Eighty-nine have subscribed to all the college papers. The daily News is voted the most valuable publication, with the Literary Magazie second. Dickens, Longfellow and Mrs. Browning are voted the favorite writers in their respective fields. "David Copperfield" is accredited the best book, and "Evangeline" the best poem. Napoleon is the most admired character in history. One hundred and one preparatory schools are represented in the class, Andover being first with thirty-one. The marking system is approved, together with the elective system in its present form. Senior year is voted the easiest and sophomore year the hardest...
...gradual swaying back to the spirit of law, until the personal disappears completely. The tendency of Tennyson is to glorify restraint rather than indulgence. He shows his great hero, the Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music and art, because it is the custom of the artist to follow his own bent and let the critic supply the laws...
...which such a result is obtained. Daniel Webster did not become great by merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other men does not depend on girth, or stature, or avoirdupois. Napoleon and Nelson, Garrick and Kean, were little men, yet did not their individualities find suitable means of expression, each in its proper fashion? Just so may that of every other man if he only uses the means with which God has thought fit to endow him; but he can no more...