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In this reply the Nation seems to me to be wrong, and not at all consistent with the principle laid down at the Alumni dinner of which it had approved. If it is true that the same praise is due to all who fight in the true spirit, and if...
Both the principle laid down at the Alumni dinner in 1874 and the policy of the College ever since make it incumbent on Harvard to honor her graduates who fell in the Southern armies (and Mr. Sibley informs me there are many such) in the same manner as she has...
"9th, Tuesday. - We started out to go to Cambridge, lying to the N. E. of Boston, in order to see their college and printing-office. We left abt. 6 o'k in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We reached Cambridge abt. 8 o'k. It...
Of all places Putnam's Hill was the most interesting. Here was the spot where Putnam galloped down the church steps at full speed, shaking his fist at the British and receiving, in exchange of compliment, a bullet through his hat; and here, I thought, "the old meeting-house, before...
The moral code of the mound-builders seems to have been founded upon the laws of Munnee and Boshor, and it is very curious to notice its radical difference from any system known to European civilization. The fundamental rule was, "Let thy thoughts and thy purposes be hidden from the...