Word: revolutionizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Story of Boston, a Study of Independency, by Mr. Arthur Gilman, is the third of a series of histories of the Great Cities of the Republic. It is not exactly a history but as its title indicates, it presents in an interesting and not too minute a form the...
The article on "The French in Canada" by E. G. Scott gives the reader an excellent idea of the weakness of the French colony in Canada, and of the impossibility of its existence after the French "bayonets" had been withdrawn. "The First Mayor" by Octave Thanet, is an interesting story...
The last article of the number is "Father and Son," by C. H. C. Wright. It is a well written story of the revolution, giving promise of much better work. The style is simple and direct except in the description of the Major's anger, when it approaches the rhetorical...
It was a quarter of eight o'clock, when the first speaker, W. R. Bigelow, was announced. He spoke in a very agreeable manner, but evidently felt the disadvantages of being the first speaker. W. E. B. DuBois delivered Grattan's 'Invective against Mr. Flood' in an effective manner. His...
1, William Reed Bigelow, The Boston Kidnapping.- Theodore Parker. 2, William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Invective against Mr. Flood.- Henry Grattan. 3, Harry Edwin Burton, The Battle of Gettysburg. G. W. Curtis. 4, Asaph Swift Wicks, Against Secession.- Daniel Webster. 5, Charles Martin Thayer, The Ordinance of 1787.- G. F. Hoar...