Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half an hour later the Harvard team strolled on to the floor, ready to show what it could do. Foremost among the tuggers was J. H. B. Easton, the "biggest anchor any team ever had," as an enthusiastic soldier remarked who was trying to place $10 against $5 that Harvard would win. He has tugged seven times in that hopeful capacity, and only once has Harvard had to yield the victory. The other members of the team do not compare well with Easton in size of body, but they are scholarly, toughened young men, and each one good...
...freshman class, almost complete, enthusiastic and - fresh, - now made itself seen and heard. Its costume was the blue regimentals of a soldier of '61, and a rather effective uniform in the mass. A transparency at the head of the parade gave a cartoon of the "lone Indian freshman," of 1636," and on the other side, the fierce declaration - "Here we are, '90. Look out!" coupled with the calm assertion that "90 is the brightest class in many a year." A bulletin signed "C. J.," another proof of the extreme subtlety of freshman wit, warned all students from entering the yard...
EIGHTY-EIGHT. - Marshals, Messrs. Adams, Appleton and Porter. Uniform of a Continental Soldier...
NINETY. - Marshals, Messrs. Amory, Hunnewell and Harding. Uniform of a Federal Soldier...
...conclusion the Colonel drew a vivid picture of the end. The Union soldier went back to his home his flag floating proudly above him, his uniform honored his native village untouched by the horrors of war. On the other hand the flag and tattered uniforms of the Confederate disappeared forever, and the southern volunteer went back to a devastated country with property lost, his cause disgraced, and nothing left him but weary years of reconstruction and memories of his bloody...