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...from there with 60,000 men, having cut entirely loose from his base of his base of supplies. The army was divided into two wings and scoured across the country with but little opposition until they neared Savannah. It was, as Gen. Underwood said, a grand picnic for the soldiers. They lived on the country, and lived well. The march lasted 35 days. then they came in sight of the sea. Communication was opened with the fleet, Fort McAllister taken and Savannah blockaded, Gen. Hardee, the commandant, seeing but little hopes of holding out, evacuated the city and retired into...
...aware that the professor of rhetoric might take exception to this expression, as stilted and newspapery, but it is the stock phrase for beginning accounts of Sunday school picnics, and as the Yale-Harvard '81 game was an S. S. picnic of the first class, I feel that no other expression would be appropriate...
...Spectator, speaking of the representation of the Ajax at Cambridge recently, says: "Some one said at the time that to compare the Oxford 'Agamemnon' to the Harvard 'OEdipus' was to compare a picnic with a banquet. If this were true of Harvard, it is equally true that the Ajax is well able to hold...
...Princetonian.There will be a meeting of the Everett Athenaeum this evening at 7.30. The farce "Dunducketty's Picnic" or "On and Off" will be given. All former members are cordially invited to be present...
GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. For the rest of this week, Hyde and Behman's "Muldoon's Picnic...