Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of freshman Minimum Physics are requested to supply themselves with copies of the fourth part of Deschanel's Physics...
...bringing out more men as candidates for the inter-collegiate contests. The loss of several men who for years have been reasonably sure of winning one or more prizes for Harvard, will be a difficult one to overcome, and can be only met by a determined effort on the part of new men to do the best within their power...
...eleven, or our nine have not "been afraid manifestly to leave the friendly shelter of their walls, even to play on neutral ground." We urged '87 to make a stand against what was an evident injustice. If there is any cowardice, it is certainly not on Harvard's part, and we would ask the News to reflect whether urging their freshman nine to play in New Haven or not at all, is showing that "decent spirit of fairness towards equalizing the odds" of which it talks so pathetically...
...lecture on the civil war. The lecturer opened his discourse with an elaborate account of the plan of campaign and its merits and defects. General Mead was in command of the army of the Potomac with about 90,000 men, and General Butler was in the southern part of Virginia with a smaller force. The supreme command of the federal forces and movements was in the hands of Gen. Grant. The plan devised was for Grant, with the army of the Potomac to push Lee backward and hold his attention while Butler should slip in and capture Richmond. There were...
...breast works. About a month had now elapsed since the campaign opened, and but little good, had been done. Grant again attacked in force and was repulsed with heavy loss. In one single charge 7,000 men were lost. Time had now come for strategy. Grant kept part of his men in front of Lee and pretended to attack Richmond while he detached most of his army across the James river to make a sudden attack on Petersburg. The feint was successful, but not so the attack on Petersburg. The troops arriving in front of the city made an attack...