Word: south
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Downs, South Berwick, Me.; class '75; age, 21; weight, 145 lbs.; height...
...brilliant Class-Day. Our anticipations were more than realized. Never did the old stairways creak beneath a fairer load; the rippling laughter of our lovely visitors echoed through the grim halls until even the College bell strove to take a softer tone, as if from envy. Coming from the South, I had invited but a very moderate number of friends, and, at a comparatively early hour of the evening, I was alone. Stretched upon a lounge in my room, which is in the southwest corner of Hollis, I was enjoying one of Tom's best cigars, when I heard...
What one of us is not filled with deadly hatred for the South as he gazes on Memorial Hall? Why not tear it down? Just think of the fearful results of our dining there next year! How we will burn with anger towards the South...
...particularly lamentable instance of the evil of considering military men, "ipso facto, the very best for civil offices." It must be acknowledged that it takes a considerable stretch of inventive genius to discover what this and Decoration Day have to do with the writhings and groanings of the South. Perhaps the writer means to lay the blame of the present condition of the South on the Administration. It will probably survive the attack...
...informs us that when the South ask for aid or sympathy from the North they receive "the cold shoulder." One cannot but admire the spirit which leads him to deal in the appetizing metaphor of "the cold shoulder" rather than in the "dry bones" of the ancient Jeremiah. It is impossible to surmise how much is implied by that exceedingly dubious expression, "the cold shoulder"; but the meaning cannot be extended so far as to include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also...