Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that the writer has not learned the lesson of literary temperance in keeping for another occasion lines undoubtedly clever but out of place in their present use. Jones is made to win the Victoria Cross, the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the Pasteur Medal, all in the Civil War. The introduction of farce mars the illusion. "The Man with the Soul" is an amusing story of a misunderstood undergraduate, a recluse with a sense of humor. Invited by two more experienced friends to an excursion to Darker Boston, he mystifies his companions by a very well done dry-drunk...
...November meeting of the Yale Corporation was held last Monday. The Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War, who was elected to the Corporation by the graduates last June was present. Announcement was made of a gift of $50,000 to establish a new professorship in medicine, and of several changes in the requirements for admission to the medical school...
...fourth number of the Advocate appeared yesterday. The straightforward and unpretentious little sketch called "A Maker of Monuments" is written with such sympathetic tenderness that we feel as if its central figure, a dear old Colonel, whom we see writing his reminiscences of the war and smoking among his roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing...
...proportion to the numbers engaged, said Mr. Buehler, the losses at Gettysburg were the greatest of the war. In one regiment alone the losses were 83 per cent, as compared to 33 per cent in the charge at Balaklava. A Confederate battalion was obliged to count its standards in order to realize that at one time it comprised ten regiments, and during Pickett's charge a body of cavalry lost 27 out of 36 of its horses within ten minutes...
...Buehler graphically described the terrific charge of the Second Massachusetts Regulars, who rode to certain death without a word of protest. In this regiment 13 of the 16 officers killed during the war were Harvard men; their names are inscribed in the transept of Memorial Hall...