Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attractions and will be put on with the same splendidly equipped company, as when seen at this popular play house last season. The latest stage effects and the highest spectacular results of modern scenic art will again be displayed. With true love that runs roughly for its theme, and war, murder, bomb explosion, broadsword combat, fox hunting with English thoroughbreds and fox hounds, and similar realistic features to enliven a sensational plot "Humanity" is unquestionably one of the strongest melodramas on the American stage...
...been for many years in preparation, is at last to be put up on Boston Common. Colonel Shaw entered Harvard with the class of '60, but left college just before the end of his junior year. He entered the army just before the before the beginning of the war and served for a while in the 7th New York National guards. He soon exchanged to the second Massachusetts, however, where he served until in February of '63 Governor Andrew gave him the command of the fifty-fourth Massachusetts infantry. This regiment was the first colored regiment sent to the war...
...years after the war private subscriptions were taken up with the purpose of erecting a monument to Colonel Shaw's memory. The City of Boston gave a piece of ground on the Park St. end of the Common, opposite the State house, as a site for the monument. Mr. St. Gaudens was chosen as sculptor...
LECTURE by Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson. Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson of Concord is to lecture at the Prospect Union this evening at eight o'clock. His subject will be, "The Lesson of the Soldier-a story of the Civil War." He will give an account of the life of Charles Russell Lowell. The lecture is open...
...revolutionary method prevailed. The result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought to avoid it. But revolution sits North and South opposed them and war followed...