Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opening, Major Higginson spoke of the feeling of the country while, in the years before the war, it lay preparing for the struggle which in one way or another had to come. With the election of Lincoln, and the secession of one southern state after another, the country saw that the beginning of the end had come at last. Men went to the front not because they were called on or because they had to, but because it was the one thing they wanted...
...year as Major Higginson served with Colonel Shaw in the 2d Mass. Regiment and was his close friend and comrade. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard in the class of '60 but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National Guards. He soon exchanged to the 2d Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63, Governor Andrews gave him charge of the 54th Massachusetts, infantry. This regiment was the first colored regiment to be sent...
...must be a source of real gratification to all Harvard men, and especially to those graduates who fought in the late war, that the Memorial Day service in Sanders Theatre has become an annual event of such importance. The great record of the University during the war certainly makes the observance of the day a very fitting one, especially for the undergraduates. This year the Memorial Society has quite appropriately been given the management of the service, and every effort is being made to get a crowd of students to attend; it has been arranged for the seniors...
...Sunday.Memorial Service. To commemorate the sons of Harvard who fell in the War. Sanders Theatre...
Egyptian 1, Language; Egyptian 2, History and Life; Greek 5, The Elements of Modern Greek; Classical Philosophy 56, Literary Criticism in Antiquity; Classical Philosophy, 57 Caesar's Gallic War; Classical Philosophy 59, The Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Corinth; Classical Philosophy 60hf., Painting in Ancient Greece; German 2a, Literature of Eighteenth Century; French 13, The Rise and Growth of Classicism in French Literature; Russian 1b, Literature of Nineteenth Century; Polish 2a Grammar, Reading and Composition; History 14 hf., American Diplomacy; History 23, Geographical Discoveries in North America; History 25, Elements of Latin Palaeography; two half courses in Experimental Psychology; Music...