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...James Farquharson Remnant, Conservative M. P., respected barrister...
...failed utterly against tall breastworks, Lee baited Grant, taunted him, hurt him. Petersburg saw Lee defending the Danville railway, source of Confederate supplies, and losing men. Grant lost more, but had more to lose. The pressure was beginning to tell on Lee. In the spring of 1865, a gallant remnant of Lee's army, to whose "tattered standards the fortunes of the Confederacy had been nailed," laid down its arms at Appomattox...
...Inquisitor Walsh of Montana (Committee on Public Lands) traced remnant tentacles of the Oil Scandals...
Whatever is wrong with the present lecture system is not altogether to be charged against the professors--who, it may be noted, are always the most progressive group in a university, the students and Convocation being the most conservative. Lectures are a remnant of mediaevalism and date from a time when there were no text-books...
...Caughnawaga Indian Reservation, across the St. Lawrence River from Montreal, Chief American Horse and Chief Two Axe last week stood before Indians of the Six Nations† and argued for the abandonment of Christianity. The Six Nations are a remnant, they are poor and they are despised by the whites, complained the leaders. Their present status, they said, began when the French Jesuits brought them Christianity. Of course the Indians, with little written knowledge of Canadian history, did not know that their subjection began, not with the coming of white priests, but with the appearance of white trappers, traders, merchants...