Word: wars
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...those elegant ornaments which beautify and perfect society as a good binding beautifies and perfects a book, two things are indispensable, - money and culture. Let either be wanting, and your fine gentleman is an elegant adventurer, or a boorish millionnaire of the class which the experiences of our last war have led us to call shoddy. Neither of these characters is either admirable or respectable; and before any man determines that his life shall be that of a gentleman of leisure, he should assure himself that he is in every way capable of maintaining the position to which he proposes...
...war it is necessary to have sappers and miners, it appears to me that the Harvard Rifle Corps might be instructed, and at the same time utilized, by digging ditches, etc., for these would answer the same purpose as trenches, and be infinitely more useful...
...committee on the restoration of the library and apparatus reported that their labors were completed, and that the injuries inflicted by the war had been for the most part repaired. There was no Commencement this year, owing to the war, small-pox, and the number of British in Cambridge. For several years after this the history of Harvard is replete with the chronicles of financial troubles, some few of which were occasioned by the war...
...strength of man, nor war, nor tower
...war-ships that came no more...