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...Boston in 1811. He studied at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1834. Events soon arose which changed the course of his life. Seeing a printer, who had come forward in favor of the abolition of slavery, in the hands of an angry mob, his sympathies were aroused in the cause of anti-slavery. Anne Green, who afterwards became his wife, had espoused the anti-slavery cause, and he was moved by her influence. With his marriage ended his law practice...
...knowledge of military law is indispensable to a man who commands militia. For instance, he must know when he may, or may not, with inpunity order his company to fire upon a mob. The lectures will sometimes be illustrated by stereopticon views, some of which will be from pictures taken in the Civil...
...laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." He said that these witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul." He said that these witnesses left their clothes with Saul because they feared that in the mob they might be stolen. Accordingly they left them with a man in whom they had perfect confidence, who they knew was in sympathy with them...
...look back, it seems but a very short time since the street and sidewalks in front of Leavitt and Peirce's were be set by a mob of students who had gathered to wish success to the departing eleven. Moments like those take strong hold in our memories; we shall think of them afterwards as among the most in spiring incidents in our college course. Their meaning is deep; the labor of months of preparation has come to the point where it must stand the crucial test of the great struggle for supremacy over a strong but friendly rival...
...infield Cook played magnificently. All of his chances were on balls that were unusually swift and difficult to manage, and his throwing was perfect. Frothingham had some hard balls to handle, but played steadily and with much judgment. Under the circumstances surrounded as he was by a hooting, howling mob of men, Mason did as well as could be expected...