Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...engaged in many works of general utility. One of his first works on returning from Germany was to investigate and select the proper material for the service pipes of the Boston Water Works. He was a member of the committee for the defence of Boston Harbor in the Civil War. He also devised a marching ration for the army which was very widely adopted. In 1873 he was one of the United States' commissioners to the World's Fair in Vienna, and in 1876 he was commissioner at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia...
...Before the Battle," by Herbert Bates is a war-song, strong and quick, to the very soul. It has all the power that characterized the work by the same author in the years before his graduation...
Hampton Institute is situated on a point of land in the Chesyeake Bay. It was there that the cargoes of slaves were landed and the place where the Indian was first baptized. General Armstrong who was in command of some negro troops at his place during the war, afterwards thought what a grand work could be done with the colored race at that place. A few years later the Institute was founded and Mr. Armstrong was at its head...
...condition of the negroes of the South after the war should see it now, he would see what a marvelous advance has been made. They have improved in every way and this especially in their homes...
...poems of the Celts are chiefly cynical. They have never made a success in war or politics, and naturally their poems would not be didactic or ethical. They have no humor about their poems, but in all these there is a one of sadness always prevalent and generally distinct. As the great nation was pushed back from its vast empire, and again and again suffered defeat, their spirit was not broken, but their despondence is everywhere to be seen...