Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BIJOU THEATRE.-"A Tin Soldier." Performance...
...greatest bugbears is a military funeral. If the thermometer drops to ten below zero, we regard it as a sure sign that some old brigadier will need "polishing." This is a very disrespectful way to speak of burying a brave old soldier, but have we not provocation? A funeral means two hours under arms, and a tramp through the cold and snow to the grave-yard where the volley that does honor to the departed, gives us an hour's work cleaning our guns. Long life to all that in tend to be buried here...
BIJOU THEATRE.-"A Tin Soldier." Performance...
BIJOU THEATRE.-"A Tin Soldier." Performance...
...immediately proceeding the rebellion. Then the pulse of Harvard beat in time with the pulse of the nation. Books were laid aside for the musket, familiarity of the classics war superseded by the knowledge of military tactics; the robe of the student was replaced by the uniform of the soldier. Academic honors lost their charm when the Union was in peril, and noble literary ambitions were as dust in the balance when the nation called for defenders. There were five hundred and thirty-five Harvard men among the volunteers of the North. Of these, three hundred and eighty-one were...