Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ordinary young American very few names mean as much as does that of Lincoln. As the Civil War recedes further into the past, Lincoln is gradually rising in the estimation of the people, and the reverence which is felt for his memory is marked by the growing tendency to observe his birthday, as a date worthy of national commemoration. The special service, which is to be held in Appleton Chapel to mark the day, is then sure to appeal to the college...
...William A. Davis '37, died recently in Winchester, Va. He was born in New York, educated at Boston, and entered Harvard in '33. After graduation he practiced for a number of years in Springfield, Mass. In 1852 he went to Virginia and served in the confederate army during the war...
...last of the readings given by the Cantabrigia Club for the Radcliffe College Scholarship Fund will be in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. John Fox, Jr., will give a brief talk on the southern mountaineer as New England's ally in the Civil War, and will read passages from "The Kentuckians"; "Courtin' on Cutshin'," "Hell fer Sartain," "A Trick o' Trade," "Preachin' on Kingdom Come," "The Passing of Abe Shivers," and "The Message on the Sand." Mrs. May Alden Ward will preside...
These industrial disputes are the results of progress, not of degeneracy. The possibility of a strike, however, has never been measured. It is more deadly than any form of civil war or foreign invasion. When we come to inquire into causes of internal discontent, we find ourselves disturbed by clamors from agitators-not from the so-called oppressed. Excited by these complaints, some have undertaken to change the economic rules of the universe. These men cannot be recognized as the causes of discontent, but they are the evidences...
...Thayer died at Lanesboro, N. H., on December 27. After leaving college he took a course at the Medical School, and began practice in Boston. During the war he went to the front serving in his profession. Later he settled in Brooklyn where he gained a large practice...