Word: northern
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...orator tells us that "a Longfellow sings in simplicity, and as the belligerent storms gather in the northern heaven, a Stonewall Jackson unsheathes his sacred sword." Both succeeded because "labor, continuous labor, was their motto," and without this no one can succeed. "Cross Plains needed some person to teach her sons and daughters this, and when they employed this modern 'Socrates,' it was the right man in the right place." The modern Socrates is the "stern, inflexible father and teacher, President John M. Walton," whose "fame has spread like the little cloud that arose out of the Arabian deserts...
...sent offspring of the Northern Bear...
...America written in the light of these developments; at present it is sufficient to remark that the common notion that America was once a populous and powerful country, but that in the twentieth century there commenced a reduction of temperature and a southward movement of ice from the northern coast, which finally brought the land to its present barren state, is essentially correct. This article is confined to Harvard, for from documents it appears that this was the name of the place, and not Arvart, as tradition...
...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 those who fell in the Northern armies...
...firemen by half past twelve had command of the fire, and although nothing was left of the northern part of the roof but the rafters, the fire was kept from burning anything but the Pi Eta rooms and the loft above. No student's room was burnt, but the floor of each was covered with water from three to six inches deep. The condition of the building is such that no one will be able to get back to his old quarters for at least several months...