Word: warred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recommend that this be copied in the CRIMSON, and that you make collections from students and others, and thereby bring the student body in touch with the real living world. The magazines which come in can be forwarded from time to time to such places as the secretary of war may designate. The expenses are small and can be raised by subscription if no other way presents itself. GUY MURCHIE...
...soldiers engaged in the Philippines could easily spare some of the enthusiasm of their receptions on their return home if the people of the United States would do a little toward enlivening their existence when they are on the other side of the world. Experience in the civil war demonstrated that homesickness is not a disorder belonging to the nursery age. Hundreds of strong men were so oppressed with it that the slightest indisposition often developed alarming symptoms, and the patient pined and died without any apparent cause. This was on our won soil when the war...
...send the boys something to remind them that they are not forgotten, something to impress them with the hearty sympathy of the American people for the men who are fighting their battles, they will do an act of duty as well as charity. In the days of the civil war the arrivals of boxes from home were the most joyful events of the southern camps, and the boys in the Philippines should be remembered all the more because they are so far away...
Among the recent valuable acquisitions of the Peabody Museum is a large and interesting collection of Samoan relics and tools. In addition to various articles of native dress, cooking utensils and war weapons, there is a rare assortment of taps cloth, a kava bowl, from which the native drink is always served, and some exceptionally fine models of Samoan war and fishing-boats. The collection is the gift of Mr. W. M. Woodworth...
DEAR SIR:--In reply to your letter of the 4th instant, in which you request information as to the whereabouts of the colors and cup presented to the cruiser "Harvard" by the students of Harvard University during the war with Spain, I have to inform you that these articles are now in the museum at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Very Respectfully, [Signed] JOHN D. LONG, Secretary...