Word: napoleonic
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Prince Napoleon breeches...
...next debate in English 6 will take place on Thursday, May 8. Subject, - Resolved, that Grouchy was responsible for the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. All members of the University are invited to be present, and will be permitted to leave at any time during the debate, which begins...
...table of contents of the Niagara Index, from which the above is taken, we notice the following subjects: "Napoleon Bonaparte," "Gerald Griffin," "Edmund Burke," "Relics and Souvenirs of St. Vincent de Paul," "The Pearl that under Blackest Wave," "Waning Stars and Withering Flowers...
...wheel has turned, and the Western papers rejoice in a new subject. Galileo is now undergoing examination by the Era and Chronicle; the Index will probably lend a helping hand after it has settled a few more disputed points regarding Napoleon, and then the other papers will drop into line. The Chronicle is getting modest, referring to itself only sixteen times in the last number, instead of over thirty, as in a previous...
...third of which was Latin poetry, "De Lunae natura; utrum viridis casei sit aut contra." His strongest argument was that the moon was a matter of square feet and inches, while it was impossible to cut in-ches out of cheese. Mr. Emerson wrote on "A Shabby Monarch, or Napoleon out at Elba." Mr. Gerrish's subject was, "Whirly and Late, or the Last Waltz" (whirly for early, you know, because you whirl when you dance). Mr. Peirce, of '76, was to have read an essay on "Water on the Brain, or a Notion (an Ocean) in the Head." There...