Word: revolutionists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Swan's Secret" is an interesting tale of the downward career of an Italian noble in the guise of a revolutionist. There is a pathetic current running through it, and the individuality of the writer is at times strongly marked. The idea of introducing the swans at the end of the story is a very happy...
...unfortunate that so many seem unable to discuss Yale affairs without indulging in ungenerous allusions to Harvard. Your correspondent 'Anti-Revolutionist' errs if he supposes that criticisms upon Yale can be answered successfully by slurs upon the university at Cambridge. This question why 'the critics who have so much to say of the Yale corporation do not open their fire on the government at Harvard,' is easily answered. The critics are graduates of Yale, members of the body which elects some of its governors. They hold no such position toward Harvard, and might justly be accused of impertinence if they...
Parisian students created a serious riot at the funeral of Jules Valles, the revolutionist, last Friday. A delegation of German Socialists occupied a place in the funeral procession, bearing a wreath of violets, adorned with a red scarf, and hanging from a long pole. The emblem bore the inscription, " From the German Socialists of Paris." The students, who lined the boulevard, began a commotion with shouts of " Down with the Germans," mingled with the revolutionary cheering; and then a group of long-haired youths made a rush at the Tenton who was carrying the violet wreath. The onset was resisted...