Word: war
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Professor Bury very wittily brought out the striking difference in character between Herodotus and Thucydides by the way both treated the causes of the Peloponnesian War. Where Herodotus related with great dramatic effect most of the scandalous and rather immoral stories then current among the Athenians, Thucydides serenely ignored these and showed us the true elemental reasons for the conflict...
...many years Gen. Woodford has been prominent in the political and military affairs of the country. In 1857 he was messenger of the New York electoral college which conveyed to Washington the vote for Abraham Lincoln as president. In the Civil War he became brevet-brigadier-general of volunteers and was first military governor of Charleston, S. C. After the war, Gen. Woodford resumed the practice of law, and in 1867 was elected lieutenant-governor of New York He was president of the electoral college that voted for U. S. Grant as president. In 1873 he was a member...
...Jeffersonian System, by E. Channing '78; The Rise of American Nationality, by K. C. Babcock '95; The Jacksonian Democracy, by W. Macdonald '92; Slavery and Abolition, by A. B. Hart '90; Parties and Slavery, by T. C. Smith '92; The Appeal to Arms, and Outcome of the Civil War, by J. K. Hosmer '55; National Ideals Historically Traced, by A. B. Hart '80; Index to the Series, by D. M. Matteson...
Professor F. W. Taussig '79 has been selected by the Department of Economics of Amherst College to deliver the Henry Ward Beecher Lectures at that college for the current year. Three lectures will be given on the general subject of "The Economic Effects of the Tariff since the Civil War." The first lecture will take place Wednesday and the other two will follow on April...
...war--Won by 1911: P. D. Smith, captain, C. E. Dunlap, W. M. Minot, W. Oveson, W. P. Rogers...