Word: errant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...knight errant game we go to play. We do not make war by tourneys and by jousts while courtly ladies look on. We do not make war by tourneys and by jousts while courtly ladies look on. We must prepare ourselves in terrible earnestness for the fierce efficiency of war. Each man who is truly and wisely patriotic will fit himself for that work in which he is proficient, and accept whatever place needs his special abilities. We may not all be captains in the company. But we should prove to ourselves what we may do, then accept our duty...
...essays on the late Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson reveal a type of Harvard man all too little known to us today. In the gentle-voiced, frail, friendly Cantabrigian who so recently died, few could have recognized the ardent lover of all that was adventurous and free; the knight-errant champion of Abolition; a man who could lead a mob and who could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual...