Word: south
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been decided by the House Committee of the Union to give a spread and dance on Class Day from 6 until 11 o'clock. The Union will be closed at 5.30 o'clock to all but ticket holders. The lawn south of the building will be enclosed and supper will be served there between 6 and 8 o'clock. An orchestra will play throughout the evening and there will be dancing in the Living Room. Only members of the Union and their friends who are not members of the University will be admitted. Members of the Union are requested...
Part 2. After the completion of the surveying an excursion, under the guidance of Mr. C. H. White will be made through the mining districts of the South. The management of the Southern Railway has agreed to furnish free transportation for a party of seventeen over its lines from Washington and return, and it is expected that reduced rates will be obtained at hotels, making the total cost of the trip about $75 apiece. A limited number of places will be open to second-year students of mining, who have had the summer work at Squam Lake. Applications for these...
...wish to come late may take boats at Otis wharf at 10.20, 12.20 and 2.20; or trains at the South station at 10.45, 12.45 and 1.43. Men who wish to return to Cambridge early may take boats at 1.40 and 3.40; and trains...
...however, was not slavery, but the maintenance of the Union, the federal compact established under the Constitution of 1787. At the north it was claimed that the Union must be upheld, even with slavery left untouched, or still worse, guaranteed from political extinction in future. At the south it was less confidently claimed that the Union must be dissolved because we had elected a northern president with northern principles,--for the first time since John Quincy Adams' administration, 35 years before. The reason alleged, however, was that southern rights were no longer safe, although one of the most conservative...
...states were seceding one after another, and while politicians and capitalists were counseling submission to the claims of the slaveholders, in order to retain them in a Union which they had grown to detest, because they no longer controlled its central government. But when the northern states saw the south rushing into rebellion against our government, in order to set up an aristocracy of color and section, that deep instinct of self-preservation brought the north almost unanimously together in defense of the imperiled nation. Its instantaneous effect was to scatter the temporizing plans of old politicians. Those who previously...