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Colonel Higginson will show how his two years of experience in command of the first regiment of freed slaves mustered in the United States service during the Civil War proved to him that "they are intensely human." He will explain that the points which separate the colored people from the whites are trivial as compared with those they have in common, and that it is by simply dealing with them as human beings that we shall do them and ourselves most justice...
Colonel Darling is a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1885, and, besides his colonelcy, holds the position of United States Marshal in Massachusetts. In the Spanish war, he was in command of one of the battalions of the Sixth Massachusetts, which defeated and captured the entire "Alfonso XIII" regiment of Spain. This battalion was the only body of Massachusetts troops which saw active service...
...poetry in the number, is on the whole, better than the prose. "Sunset," is exceedingly poor; but "Nocturne," has genuine lyrical beauty, and "Demeter," by A. D. Ficke, is musical and delicately fanciful, though it lacks the strong and sure command of suggestive striking similes, which are the marks of poetic imagination as distinguished from that poetic fancy which pleases, but does not stir, and lightly fascinates but does not compellingly more...
...struggle, to strive, to obey, to command...
...struggle, to strive, to obey, to command...