Word: young
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...English Department Mr. Young gives a new half course on English literature from the closing of the theatres to the death of Dryden. Two other new courses, 4 and 13 hf. are to be given. Courses 16, 23 and 5 are omitted, while the standard in English 12 is to be raised...
...swung out from Union Square into Broadway it was greeted with a roar which lasted all the way to the Battery, where it embarked, and Robert Shaw, the flank man of his platoon, was seized and kissed by man after man as they marched down Broadway." He was young, graceful, and handsome; every one liked him, every one trusted him implicitly. He was neither sentimental nor ostentatious, and did his full share of the new and severe work...
When Governor Andrew received permission to fit out a negro regiment he asked Robert Shaw to be its colonel. The young officer, doubtful of his ability at first refused, but on being told by his commanding officer that he was fitted for the post accepted it. He knew that neither he nor his men would be treated as equals by friends or enemies but steadfastly did his duty. In February he took command of the regiment at Readville, on the 2d of May he was married, on the 28th he started for the front. On the 19th of July following...
Yesterday afternoon at the ceremonies in Music Hall incident to the unveiling of the Colonel Robert G. Shaw Memorial, Professor William James delivered the oration; an eye witness of Colonel Shaw's career, he held up this young officer as an example of the truest civic patriotism, as well as the highest military courage...
...Sawyer '98 describes in condensed form the romance of a young widower and a Boston girl who has been through college...