Word: wente
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...games will be played, one at Providence, another at Cambridge, and the third, if necessary, on neutral grounds. The first game will be played this afternoon on Roger Williams Park, Providence. Brown has an exceptionally strong team, two of her men being chosen for the all-America team which went to Canada last year. Harvard has also a strong team, so that a close and exciting game may be looked for. The line-up of the Harvard team this afternoon will be as follows: Rushers, Goodridge, Clarkson; centre, Stevens; halfback, Clark: goal, Baldwin...
...Treat Paine graduated. After graduating he studied law in the office of W. C. Noyes, New York, and began practice in that city. For a time he was on the Tribune staff. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 12th regiment, New York State national guard, and went to the front at the first call. In September, 1862, he was made brigadier general for bravery. He was wounded at Antietam, and again at Gettysburg, where he was taken prisoner. He participated in the final Potomac campaign with Gen. Grant and was present at the Confederate surrender...
...confusion, that Hooker made his brilliant capture of Lookout Mountain. His troops had to move painfully around the edge of the mountain from west to east, before they could so much as find a place for ascent. At last they reached a winding cart-track, and up they went, until the clouds hid the death-struggle from the watchers. In a few minutes more it was all over, and the enemy was in full retreat down the slope...
...Tucker spoke upon the subject of repentance, illustrating his sermon by telling how John the Baptist and Jesus Christ called their hearers to repentance. He went on to show how difficult it is for all classes of men to really repent. Some cannot reach the individuality of their sin because they are a part of a great army which sweeps them on in its progress and restrains them from acting independently as they might if they were alone. Others fall into a kind of mental indifference from which they seem to be unable to rouse themselves; they can not throw...
Grant immediately went on with his triumphs and Rosecrans, under him, won such successes at Iuka and Corinth, that he supersceded Buell. The latter had lost his position, a victim to misfortune and unjust treatment at the hands of Halleck...