Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very soon made evident. A large '85 is upon his door, made as first appears from postal cards. Closer inspection shows the supposed cards to be suspicious somethings from the Dean's office, that proverbial "U 5." Snodkins points to these with the pride of an old soldier who shows his empty sleeve and tails of the battles he has been through. Our attention is next called to a strange device over the fire-place-a row of four cards, the ace of hearts, eight of clubs, 8 to spades and five of diamonds, a suspicious looking bottle above...
...served the ancients, in time of need, as an excellent sling-shot. Unless you are an infatuated coin-collector, you will not spend much time at this case, but will pass on to other curiosities. On the shelf of a bookcase stands a cast of that grim old Puritan soldier, Oliver Cromwell, from the original mask taken after death and presented to Prof. Charles Eliot Norton by Thomas Carlyle. Next you turn to a glass case which contains many a precious book, whose leaves have been thumbed by men whose names have been household words for centuries. Here...
...Book Counter: Higginson's "Life of Margaret Fuller," Crawford's "A Roman Singer," Mallock's "Property and Progress," Loring's "A Confederate Soldier in Egypt," Sherwood's "Manners and Social Usages." Politics"-An introduction to the study of Comparative Constitutional Law, by Crane and Moses, Hallowell's "James and Lucretia Mott," Robert's "Government Revenue," Carnegie's "Round the World," Bunce's "My House"-an Ideal, Howell's "Three Villages," "Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse," etc., Biographical Sketch and Letters, June Magazines...
...Book Counter: Higginson's "Life of Margaret Fuller," Crawford's "A Roman Singer," Wallock's "Property and Progress," Loring's "A Confederate Soldier in Egypt," Sherwood's "Manners and Social Usages." Politics-An introduction to the study of "Comparative Constitutional Law," by Crane and Moses, Hallowell's "James and Lucretia Mott," Robert's "Government Revenue," Carnegie's "Round the World," Bunce's "My House"-an Ideal, Howell's "Three Villages," "Alica, Grand Duchess of Hesse," etc., Biographical Sketch and Letters, June Magazines...
...this sort by such finished historical scholars as John C. Ropes and Dr. Channing cannot fail to be of interest, if for no better reason as presenting an instructive contrast in the point of view of the military operations described, taken by the civilian and by the actual soldier...