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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Grinding for History VI.- 1st SENIOR. "When was the war...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...absolutely no choice but to assert their authority. Even were it possible, would it be advisable to entirely suppress the military portion of the College curriculum? In this country the principle of trusting to chance is carried to an alarming extent. We seldom or never make much preparation for war until war is upon us, and then we find that not only are our military supplies deficient, but that nine tenths of our impromptu army are ignorant of even the simplest movements of the manual. If we could raise a force that knew something about handling its arms, the task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOWDOIN MUTINY. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...Prussia, or get into the habit of picking international quarrels unnecessarily; but all our experience tells us that a certain amount of preparation is nothing more than prudence, and that it is a poor policy to allow our military knowledge to fall to so low an ebb that a war is rendered longer and more bloody by the inadequate provision to meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOWDOIN MUTINY. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...Decoration Day, he admits that "it commemorates in a tender and touching way the valor and devotion of brave men who are dead"; but objects to the public celebration of the day, because it has a tendency, as he affirms, to keep alive the memory of the late war, "and of all its concomitants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MILITARY SPIRIT. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...war anew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIRVENTE. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

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