Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dinner in 1874, the first that was held in Memorial Hall, the question was discussed as to whether the erection of a hall here at college to commemorate those who had fallen in the late war would tend to keep alive the unpleasant recollections of the war, and whether Southern men would be debarred by it from the University...
...liberal tone of these speeches led a Southern gentleman, a member of the class of '33, to write to the Nation, pointing out that it would be but consistent with this principle to put up tablets in Memorial Hall to Harvard graduates who had fallen on the Confederate side also. The Nation replied, though indorsing the ground taken by Judge Devens and General Bartlett, "To put up tablets .... to persons whom its builders do not reverence or love - i.e. the Southern dead - would be a kind of absurdity difficult to describe, if it were not an act of hypocrisy...
From distant islets floating on the Southern...
...barren of suggestions looking toward a higher state of things, he is approaching the region of facts where it behooves one to tread cautiously. Does he recognize no fixed principle of the Nation in regard to hard money and resumption? I would ask, in regard to the Southern question, who first suggested the ideas that were afterwards embodied in the bill that passed Congress? I would ask, who pointed out the nature of the difficulty in regard to the grangers and railroads? The views lately propounded by C. F. Adams, Jr., as to the over-production of railroads...
...worse. Our space will allow us to correct but two misstatements. The first is that "facilities for transportation in Sicily are about three hundred years behind" those of any other civilized country. We personally know that the railway between Syracuse and Messina is fully as good as any in Southern Europe; while the Florio steamers which ply along the Sicilian coast are decidedly the best, as far as accommodation and table go, that we have found upon the Mediterranean. The other misstatement is that Sicilian hotels are so dirty that you cannot sit down to dinner without washing your plate...