Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intrinsic value in themselves, for the advancement of knowledge. Thus were it not for such considerations, we understand that it might be possible (as was proposed last year), for the Historical Society to secure the delivery of a course of lectures upon the Civil War from the Southern point of view, complementing the valuable series on the same subject given last winter. Instead of one lecture from Mr. Gosse, secured by the enterprise of this Society, if the university were able to undertake such matters, it might supplement its regular instruction in English literature by a more extended course...
...recent graduate of Harvard. The book is a tale of the reconstruction period at the South. and reminds one in its general character of some of Judge Turgee's works. The story is divided into two parts; the first represents the unavailing attempts of a Northern man to overcome Southern prejudice, the record shows the impossibility of freeing a Southern man from the bigoted views which he has been taught from childhood. Immediately after the war, characters such as are described in the book undoubtedly existed in large numbers. but the tendency of latter years has been to soften these...
...ENGLAND COLLEGES.- The annual convention of delegates from the college faculties of Southern New England met recently at Amherst. The subject discussed was the selection of physics and chemistry to the college curriculum: It was generally agreed that to demand any preparation in the preparatory schools in these branches inadvisable, at least for the present. Professors Trowbridge and Cook represented Harvard in the convention...
...October "Atlantic" is one of unusual interest. Among the articles of especial worth is a continuation of "In War Times" by Dr. Weir Mitchell, a powerful description of the Battle of Lake George by Francis Parkman, the story of condition of the Southern Colleges and schools, and articles on an "English Literary Cousin," a "Bourgeois Family," the "Migrations of the gods," etc. There are poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Celia Thaxter and Augustus M. Lord. The departments are up to the usual standard...
...pleasure to the lecture on the civil war. The lecturer opened his discourse with an elaborate account of the plan of campaign and its merits and defects. General Mead was in command of the army of the Potomac with about 90,000 men, and General Butler was in the southern part of Virginia with a smaller force. The supreme command of the federal forces and movements was in the hands of Gen. Grant. The plan devised was for Grant, with the army of the Potomac to push Lee backward and hold his attention while Butler should slip in and capture...