Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Captain A. T. Mahan's sketch of "Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent," and John Foster Kirk's "An English Family in the Seventeenth Century," - the family in question being the Verneys, and the papers being based on the memoirs of the Verney family during the English civil war. An interesting unsigned paper, also based on a volume of memoirs, is entitled "A Great Lady of the French Restoration," - Madame de Gontaut...
...condemn luxury and comfort in a sweeping way he thought senseless and characteristic only of a very shallow thinker. Certainly all the luxury with which Harvard's sons had been lavished, did not abate one whit the patriotic ardor they showed in the late war. When a test came, Harvard men were revealed, not shorn of their manliness, but armed with full strength and vigor...
...voted to strike the running and standing broad jump and the tug of war from the list of events, and the following officers were elected...
...make up the history and biography. The former would undoubtedly be of interest to many not only on account of its pleasing style but because a good knowledge of Boston, as it was in the seventeenth century, is obtained. The story describes the visit of a French man-of war to Boston and how they were entertained by the people of that town...
...forbade reductions and then proceeded to forbid also the pooling system, which was the only thing that had shown itself capable of putting a stop to those reductions. They left the cause, and forbade the effect. The truce between railroads was broken, and they were forced again into secret war. The law that declared that all firms shall be treated alike really intensified the inequality. Since reductions are illegal, they must be secret, and thus are sown the seeds of great monopolies much more dangerous than the railroads at the worst...