Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Many of the old soldiers are in urgent need of assistance. - (a). Service in the army was disastrous to their health. - (b) They were poorly paid and paid in depreciated currency. Teller in Cong. Record June 23, 1890. - (c) The end of the war found the soldiers unfitted for peaceful pursuits. - d) For these reasons they have been unable to provide for their...
...only fiction of the number is a story by Mr. Lovett entitled "The Coward." It is a reminiscence of war-times, the tale of a man who was apparently guilty of cowardice during a battle and who afterwards sacrificed his life to a mob in New York to save a negro. The plot is more or less chimerical but there are a number of vivid descriptions in it, - notably the account of the New York...
Plans are being prepared by a Newport architect for a new $100,000 war college building at Coasters' Harbor Island, for which an appropriation was made by Congress some time...
...volume will soon be presented to the Harvard University library containing manuscript copies of all the commencement programs of the college from 1780 to 1890, and specimens of the order of commencement exercises at intervals from the first graduation, in 1642, to the Revolutionary War...
HISTORY I.- Seminars today at 39 Holyoke House. I. France, Germany, Spain and Italy, with the reading and geography at 2 p. m. Special attention to Fr. and Ger. Kingships, the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, and Louis XIV. II. England with the reading and geography at 7.30 p. m. Special attention to the Eng. Kingship, the Eng. Constitution, the Tudors and the Stuarts. Price $2.00 each...