Word: war
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...sketch based on a tragedy of family life--the mistaken striving of an Irish girl toward a life which was too dazzling for her ignorance to resist, and the savage grief of her disappointed brother. "In the Thirsty Land" by Rowland Thomas takes its color from the South African war, but it is by no means a common place treatment. Simple pathos is interwoven with a powerful description of the mazes of a wounded man's wandering thoughts. A play, "Mr. Brent's Wife" by James Regnart, shows the rapid development and demolition of an improbable crisis which is characteristic...
...Memorial Service to commemorate the sons of Harvard who fell in the Civil War. Sanders Theatre, 12 m. Mr. R. C. Bolling will deliver the address. Seats for the students and for members of the G. A. R. Posts will be reserved till...
...advisable to put them in the charge of a permanent organization. Thus they came to be a part of the Memorial Society's work. They have always consisted of singing, led by the Glee Club, and of an address by a graduate who had himself served in the Civil War. Major Higginson spoke the first year, and he has been followed by Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson, Judge Holmes, Colonel Hallowell, Professor Shaler, Professor Hollis, and the Honorable John Read...
Seminary of American History. "South America, and the War of Liberation to 1818." Mr. Hiram Bingham, Jr. University...
Another article of interest in the May Atlantic is "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux movement," by William Garrott Brown 91. The history of the whole period of the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War is, especially in the North, comparatively little known. The "Ku Klux Klan," a secret fraternity organized to oppose the carpet bag politicians and to prevent the dominance of the negroes, was a society unique and curious in its aims and work, and an account of it, as well as of the state of southern politics from which it arose, is full...