Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fallacy of the statement that the cavalry man seldom meets death on the field. In one battle the First Massachusetts Cavalry lost 186 men and officers out of a total of 300, and the experience of other cavalry troops was similar. Dr. Bowditch closed his lecture with a graphic account of army life. His troop seldom suffered from hunger, although the army rations were sometimes eaten under trying conditions. The individual should seek sleep and cleanliness as far as posible, and if not able to keep dry should at least keep up bodily warmth. The college man's superior usefulness...
...Fiske's lectures in aid of the Prospect Union will be well attended, since the Union is greatly in need of funds. It is hardly necessary to say that in these lectures Mr. Fiske is at his best, and that no man is better qualified to give a graphic and vivid account of the great engagements of our civil...
Professor John Fiske delivered the third of his series of lectures on the early history of the southern colonies in Sanders Theatre last evening. Taking as his special topic "The Beginnings of a Commonwealth," he outlined in a graphic manner the early progress of the colony of Virginia...
...Graphic statics with applications to roof trusses and arches," in twelve lectures, by Assistant Professor Jerome Sondericker, on Mondays and Thursdays, in Room 22, Rogers Building, beginning...
...chief value, we think, will appear if it is used as an introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay can say that...