Word: civil
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...Polyglot College, in which will be taught all the modern languages of any importance, and the tongues of all the nationalities, about seventy, under the Czar's sceptre. The purpose of this college is to prepare trust worthy and thorough interpreters for the diplomatic, consular, and military service, the civil officers and missionaries who have to deal with the different nations found in Russia, and mercantile agents who have to attend to the import and export trade. A Russian professor himself speaking over a score of languages says...
...class of '86 contains an "offensive partisan" in the person of Mr. W. G. Webster, late of the Treasury department, Washington, D. C. Mr. Webster entered the service under competitive Civil Service Examination, but spent his vacation last fall in making campaign speeches. The New York Times noticed his first efforts as follows: Princeton, N. J., Sept. 26, 1884. Tonight, Mercer Hall was filled with college students to hear the first political speech of the campaign in the college Mr. W. G. Webster of Illinois, recently of Michigan University, spoke stirringly and in an eloquent manner. The meeting was enthusiastic...
...following are the Chapters in Professor Laughlin's book on "The Study of Political Economy," shortly to be issued by D. Appleton and Co. I. Our Civil War, the Cause of a new Interest in Economics. II. The Character of Political Economy as a Study. III. The Disciplinary Power of Political Economy. IV. The Relations of Political Economy to the Law, the Ministry, and Journalism. V. Methods of Teaching Political Economy...
...Historical Society was entertained at the house of Mr. Deane, vice-president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, last Monday evening. Col. Lee, who was on Gov. Andrew's staff, and Col. T. W. Higginson, related several reminiscences of the civil...
...students that compulsory attendance at prayers should be discontinued have made public their reasons for not granting the petition. It is denied that "compulsory attendance upon prayers is a religious test." It is urged that "in becoming a member of any association, a person resigns a portion of his civil liberty in order to comply with the rules of the association. It is entirely competent for the governing boards to require daily attendance upon recitations and lectures, and this, without any undue encroachment on daily prayers, if deemed expedient, and if required only where there are no conscientious reasons...