Word: relief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more compact line meager to Chancellorsville itself. In the morning, Sunday, a second desperate attack was made by the Confederates, which compelled Hooker to abandon his position and withdraw, so as to defend the road in his rear leading to the river. Here, night again brought him relief. From this last position Lee still seemed determined to drive him where his own attention was drawn aside by the movements of Sedgwick in his rear. This general had received orders from his chief to move around and meet him at Chancellorsville. Instead, on Sunday, he moved straight forward, taking Fredericksburg, after...
...president and fellows of Harvard College have appropriated $100 for the Boston firemen's relief fund, in recognition of the service done by the fire department at the new building of the Medical School, on Boylston street, one night last...
...question for some time to come, since the speech seems to have been made with authority. As an experiment the proposed change could not have been viewed but with the greatest anxiety by all friends of the college. Its abordment for the present, at least, must be regarded with relief...
...evening, the venerable Prof. Alpheus S. Packard, speaking of the new jury system of college discipline, said that he could not say that it had worked at all. Speaking of the endowment, he said that the college which has any life in it will always be wanting something. The relief which Bowdoin has received has come largely from outside, especially in the Stone and Winkley Professorships, founded by the late Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, and Mr. Henry Winkley, of Philadelphia. Nothing was known of Mr. Winkley before he made this gift. One day, Prof. Packard said...
...which they will the longest and most willingly repose. Then, why should we not reform the abuse as the means lie so completely in our power? Let us have our books printed on green paper and use red or yellow ink. Such a change would be a general relief. It would take some time as the trade would be hostile at first, but the change is sure to come eventually, bringing relief to the student above all, and to every person who lives in a civilized country...