Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SOLDIER, 'Ration? They did n't give us any rations except what we had in our knapsacks...
SENIOR (to PENNSYLVANIAN SOLDIER). How did you like the oration...
...much influence, but we hope that its results will soon be seen in the improved carriage and manly bearing of the students, who are now, it must be confessed, for the most part either "slouchy" and round-shouldered, or else conspicuous for their "dog." The position of the soldier is seldom considered of much importance by the young recruit, who is all anxiety to get a musket and parade about the streets to the admiration of the fairer sex and of the throngs of little ragamuffins who follow his march. Judging from the various positions which different men keep...
Springs to life each grave old soldier...
...subjects. The ventilators underneath are to be occupied by representations of episodes appropriate to the figures, together with suitable inscriptions, - the one in the Sidney window, by the representation of the death of Sir Philip, and the incident of his giving the cup of water to a wounded soldier, probably with the inscription, "Thy necessity is yet greater than mine"; and the other, by the picture of the Spartan matron giving the shield to her son, while for an inscription, either on the shield or above the picture, her words may be placed, H tautav n eti tauta...