Word: side
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee appointed from the Union and the Forum to select a subject for the Harvard-Princeton debate have forwarded to Princeton the following question: "Resolved, That Congress should take immediate steps toward the complete retirement of all the legal tender notes." It remains for Princeton to choose which side she will support...
...events which finally culminated in his triumph over Lee in the east. There, it was largely through Lee's personal ability that the Union advance was so long checked, but in the course of western events the true balance between the resources and the energy of either side can be observed...
...heard the firing and returned, sending verbally for Wallace to come from the right. The battle was stubbornly contested all day with the advantage on the Confederate side. Prentiss's brigade, Union, was outflanked and captured; but Johnston was killed, and his death was an irreparable blow to the Confederacy...
...night-fall fighting ceased. During the night Buell's forces arrived, and Wallace, who had lost his way, also appeared. Thus re-enforced, Grant attacked vigorously next morning and drove the Confederates from the field. There was no pursuit. The loss was almost 10,000 on each side, and this terrible conflict, so unequalled in American experience, caused mutual self-respect. For the first time, the public began to realize the full meaning...
There will be six speakers on each side. Of these, four on each side will give five minute speeches. The two principal disputants have 25 minutes between them, of which time, one will reserve 7 minutes for rebuttal...