Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yard. The entries were lighted by private subscription, a few men clubbing together occasionally and buying a lantern or two. These would last but a short time, as some belated carouser usually found a happy finale for his "bat" in smashing them. Then the entries would remain in Egyptian darkners until the next subscription had been made and new lanterns hung...
UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE.- The April number of this monthly is just out. Devoted to army and navy affairs it is particularly interesting to men of a military turn of mind. It contains articles on the Egyptian campaign, by Gen. Stone; on Shiloh, by Gen. Jordan, late C. S. Army; on Gen. Gordon, etc. There are also two regular continued stories and two poems. An important and worthy feature of United Service is the editorial department, wherein are discussed the topics current in military affairs. Book notices and reviews close the number...
UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE.-The April number of this monthly is just out. Devoted to army and navy affairs it is particularly interesting to men of a military turn of mind. It contains articles on the Egyptian campaign, by Gen. Stone; on Shiloh, by Gen. Jordon, late C. S. Army; on Gen. Gordon, etc. There are also two regular continued stories and two poems. An important and worthy feature of United Service is the editorial department, wherein are discussed the topics current in military affairs. Book notices and reviews close the number...
What strides the great Universi8ty has taken ! During all my early years our old Harvard Alma Mater sat still and lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. Then all at once, like the commander's statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. The fall of that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans...
...Junior forensic due today-Subject: 1. A criticism of the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the legal-tender case. 2. England's Egyptian policy. 3. A criticism of Sumner's "What Social Classes owe to each other." 4. What are the conditions under which a Republican form of Goverment may be expected to do permanent? 5. Have we any knowledge independent of experience? Any of the subjects for the fourth senior forensic may also be taken by juniors...