Word: wars
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McClure's--"The South After the War," by C. Shurz...
...greatest work. "The History of the United States since the Compromise of 1850." The degree of I.L.D. has been conferred upon him by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other universities. President Eliot's words, in delivering the degree, were: "The historian of the slavery debate, and of the Civil War and its issues; and accurate and impartial delineator of public characters, social conditions, and past states of public opinion." Professor Rhodes has been president of the American Historical Association, and is a highly honored member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of other New England bodies. His great power lies...
...degree of D.D. from that institution and from Harvard, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He was ordained a minister in 1860, and has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church, New York, and Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For three years after the Civil War he was secretary of the American Union Commission for the aid of freemen, and in 1869 he resigned his pastorate at New York to devote himself to literature. He edited the "Literary Record," of Harper's Magazine, and was associate editor of the "Christian Union" with Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Abbott...
Soldiers Field was given to the University in 1890 by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 in commemoration of the soldiers of the University who lost their lives in the Civil War. Major Higginson suggested that it be used as a playground to take the place of Holmes Field which had become inadequate on account of the increased number of students using...
...Greek state. His clear and concise statements of the doctrine of "might makes right," his broad criticism of a narrow policy, and his independence of prejudice and envy have made him one of the most eminent historical thinkers the world has ever produced. Thucydides's greatest work, "The Peloponnesian War," is remarkably free from the multitude of trivial details and stories usually inserted by his contemporaries, presenting, on the contrary, the serious attempt of an historical thinker to present the trends and currents marked by the events of the time...