Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fullerton, Nihilism (from the Phi Beta Kappa oration.)- Phillips; S. A. Bailey, Hamlet, II. ii.- Shakspere; H. E. Fraser. American Taxation.- Burke; I. L. Winter, Peroration of the Centennial Speech at Yorktown.- Winthrop; G. E. Foss, Eulogy on Wendell Phillips,- G. W. Curtis; W. H. Baldwin, Harvard College in the War. O. W. Holmes, Jr.; J. H. Payne, Dedication of the Soldier's Monument.- Garfield; O. R. Hansen, Wendell Phillips first appearance in Faneuil Hall.- G. W. Curtis...
...Noteworthy strategic movements. Movements to the Peninsula. Socalled Siege of Yorktown. Operations before Richmond, especially the defeat of McClellan by a movement on his right flank...
...Controverted questions. Necessity of the siege of Yorktown. Propriety and effect of withholding McDowell from McClellan. What McClellan should have done after the battle of May 31 and June 1. What McClellan should have done when at tacked on his right by Lee, June 27, 1862, etc., etc., etc. Especially question of possibility of McClellan's moving on Richmond by the James, in (say) August...
...mistaken ideas which foreigners sometimes form of our university is well shown in a work entitled "A Traversles Unis Etats," by the Vicomte d'Haussonville, one of the French guests to the Yorktown celebration, who visited Harvard in the fall of 1881. In his book the author devotes an entire chapter to Boston, including an amusing account of his trip to Harvard. When he says that the architectural beauty of the buildings did not impress him very forcibly we can readily agree with him, but when he remarks that the students are all obliged to live in the college buildings...