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...making breastworks. But all was of no avail to the Southerners, who again fell back to Kensaw Mountain. This, by previous labor, had been made a regular fortress. Sherman, to encourage his troops, made an assault but could not take the main works. He had again to resort to flanking tactics. In this manner the enemy was forced back and soon the city of Atlanta was in sight. Johnston was then relieved, and Hood took his place. Hood tried by desperate attacks on three separate days to break up Sherman's forces. His efforts failed; he lost...
...that this year, at this early date, the number of "mockers" has grown to be legion. What it will become later at its present rate of increase, is a prospect we shudder to contemplate. Everything except extermination has been recommended hitherto, and we are now emboldened, as a last resort, to offer this remedy as of value for our troubles with the "mucker...
...there was almost always some crowd of students using the grounds when the regular team did not want them, but such recreation was uncertain and infrequent. Even at that time there was a cry for more room. In the fall the freshman eleven needed another field and had to resort part of the time to a distant field kindly loaned by an interested gentleman. In the spring time the lacrosse twelve. badly cramped in their narrow quarters, were also clamoring for more room that their increasing numbers might be accommodated. As was said before there was scarcely a place where...
Students were also not allowed to loiter on the college grounds, to attend the courts of justice, to be outside their rooms after nine P. M. or to resort to any shops in which "wine or any other drink or herba Nicotina sive Tobacco is kept for sale. The infringement of these rules was punished by imprisonment, chastisement or suspension...
...floats at the boat-house are not yet in place, the crews already on the river will have to resort to the old process of launching, known commonly as "wading...