Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...government, if the people have surrendered their right to consider every step of a policy which is officially announced as destined to lead, in one not improbable alternative, to a conclusion which must convulse the nation and may affect the civilization of the world? The fact is that there never was a public question which stood more in need of immediate, full and open discussion. The people are very far from being united, and it would be a bold man who would venture now to rely on the country for support of any extremen position, and however determined Mr. Roosevelt...
McClure's magazine for January is to have an article giving the whole story (never yet published, but long desired by the public) of Mr. Blaine's relation to his own candidacy for the Presidency in 1884. It is written by Murat Halstead, whose opportunity for knowing all the facts was unequaled; and it embodies conversations with Blaine and an important unpublished letter written by him a few days after his defeat. Some very interesting portraits will accompany the article, and the Blaine letter will be reproduced in facsimile...
...today's issue Mr. G. B. Pierce '93 challenges "Mr. Thayer or any other man to state a specific case where favoritism (in choosing members of athletic teams) was shown." As I have never made such a charge, I leave it to the 'other man' to find specific case. What I have said is that the impression has prevailed that our athletic teams have not been representative, and I have cited the existence of this impression as an indication of the lack of unanimity in times past. It makes no difference whether there were actual grounds for this idea...
...this morning, are to be congratulated on the honorable record which they have made. To be in the group of the highest scholars at Harvard College is an honor that can not be too generally recognized. Though the Detur list is a more or less arbitrary one that can never be expected to include all who are the highest scholars in the highest sense, yet the honor ferred is a genuine one and is given to none who are not thoroughly worthy...
...Never did general face more overwhelming difficulties. But Grant rose to the occasion. Base of supplies, or no base, he resolved to trust everything to rapidity and boldness. Grand Bluff was left far behind, and with his whole column in light marching order, living on the country, he marched straight for Jachson. Napoleon himself never planned a bolder stroke. The enemy were confounded by its swiftness and sharpness. Johnson's force was scattered; Pemberton, bewildered, tried to cut, at Grand Bluff, a line of communication which never existed. Soon he, too, was overwhelmed by the triumphant Federal advance. At Champion...