Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Union Hall was filled to overflowing on Saturday night, and about half filled on Saturday night, and about half filled on Saturday afternoon to witness the representation of the extravaganza "Romulus and Remus." The play went off as smoothly as could be desired; the "grinds" were fresh and very amusing, though bearing rather hard upon Boston and Bostonians; the costumes, especially those of the Romans and Sheperdesses, were very striking; and the music, artistically adapted from the latest comic operas by Mr. Daniels, was very well rendered by the Boston Cadet Band under his direction. The plot, it is needless...
...exploring party had left the monument. Led by their experienced guide they turned to the left, went down a crowded street or two and came to the Navy Yard. A sentry or two stared at them as they passed through the gate and entered the government grounds. It is a pretty place - the yard - with green terraces and broad, asphalt walks. In front of the barracks a blue-coat with his musket on his shoulder is striding up and down, and a couple of brass howitzers standing on the terrace glisten in the sun. Hurrying by we stopped a moment...
...used for salutes." Tables were placed between the guns, and at each was a crowd of fine specimens of the American marine, some playing dominoes, some writing letters and some reading. Above from the beams were hooks from which hung at night the hammocks of the men. We went down stairs. "These cabins at the rear are the officer's quarters," continued the guide; "from these hooks are hung swinging tables like that one over there, and mess is served on them. Twelve men sit at a table. They give us good food, nice bread, salt meat; fresh meat...
...semi-apologetic utterances on that evening tended to strengthen that belief. Mr. Lodge, brilliant and able man as he is, was unable to follow what he calls the "path of principle," when brought face to face with it two years ago. An earnest opponent of Mr. Blaine, he went to Chicago avowedly to oppose that gentleman's methods and personality, and as the champion of reform and pure government. When he was defeated, he turned to the right about, and supported zealously the very man he had been describing the day before as unprincipled and corrupt. I am sorry that...
...complaint, made yesterday by an instructor in Political Economy, that one of his lectures had been reported and published in a Boston paper, hardly reflects credit on the member of the section, who for the sake of the small profits of a newspaper correspondent, went not only beyond the duties of a correspondent, but also beyond the laws of courtesy. We would find it hard to imagine such a transgression, on the part of a member of the college, if it had not actually taken place. To the instructor's very justifiable indignation, we would add our own condemnation...