Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Britten's translation of one of Paul Verlaine's lyrics, charming except for the clumsy third stanza; and Mr. Douglas's "Fourteen to One." This, which sounds rather like Kipling in a great hurry, expands with moderate vigor the statement that "the number of deaths in the late Cuban War caused by disease and wounds bore the ratio of fourteen...
...Tremont street, a man of seventy years and more fell in line just behind the band which led the Harvard division. Guided by a friend he marched with eyes closed and head erect while the band played the old songs, as he had done in the days of the war. Major Higginson had joined the ranks...
Besides being used for pleasure, balloons can be employed for exploration. Several people have crossed the Sahara desert and have attempted to reach the North Pole in this manner, though without success. In the future, balloons will be used for reconnoitering in times of war, and for this purpose the French have built the "Republique" and the Germans are helping Count Zeppelin construct another dirigible balloon. The great advance that has been made in this line is in the fact that these balloons are driven by motor power...
Memorial Hall, having been dedicated to those alumni who gave up their lives in the Civil War, is in a measure hallowed. It is but a token of respect to those heroes for men entering the hall to remove their hats. On the stairs of the visitors' gallery in the dining hall is a placard requesting those unacquainted with the place and its ways to do so. Occasionally visitors fall to acquiesce in this small sign of respect. It is then customary for those below in the dining hall to call the attention of the guests to their failure...
...Rhodes read an interesting paper on economic conditions in this country during President Hayes's administration, paying special attention to the notable manner in which Hayes averted the panics following close after the Civil War. Hayes took the presidential chair only after a bitter struggle with Tilden, and with the reputation of being the only president who ever entered upon that office with the word "Fraud" stamped on his forehead. His struggles with the Senate and with the members of his cabinet, in trying to put an end to the panic that was causing so many strikes throughout the country...