Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...immediate danger to slavery, came in the triumph of cotton and slavery in the Mexican war, the Kansas Bill, and the partiality of the Supreme Court to the South. When at last it grew clearer that the slave labor could not compete on equal terms with free labor and that it was impossible to give salve labor a free chance in the territories, the theory of secession became at once the foremost subject of discussion. So perfect was the unanimity and solidity of the people, that within a hundred days from the election of Lincoln they were seated...
Harvard showed that the preservation of the Chinese empire would mean war for the United States; that a single war would precipitate international war; that the commercial gain was not sufficiently great; and that the United States was under no moral obligation to China...
Horace John Hayden '60 was instantly killed on Friday by a fall from a window of his house in New York. Mr. Hayden was born in Boston in 1838 and graduated from Harvatd in 1860. During the Civil War he served as major in the 4th regiment of artillery and at the conclusion of the war joined the regular army. Later Mr. Hayden became connected with a western railroad, then with the Boston and Albany, and subsequently with the Cheaspeake and Ohio. About twenty years ago he was made general traffic manager of the New York Central and Hudson River...
...grouping of the authors, the large relations of individuals to each other and to historical movements--for example, the relations of Whittier and Whitman to the Civil war--the geographical divisions, which one feels mark real divisions of throughout; the total impression of the American spirit which the book leaves with one, make it a very notable study of American life and letters...
...funeral of Rufus Platt Lincoln 68M takes place today in New York. Mr. Platt was graduated from Amherst in 1862; he then went to war and later entered the Harvard Medical School where he received "distinguished honors." At the time of his death he was recognized abroad as well as at home as an authority on diseases of the throat and air passages. He was 59 years...