Word: civil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rest, returning twenty-four hours afterward for more work, and so on for three successive trials. At the close of the examination the papers, which are all numbered, are carefully gone through and the best one hundred and thirty are selected, the writers being at once nominated for distinguished civil (?) vice. They must, however, go up to Pekin later on for further examination with a view to very high promotion...
...subject upon which the Seniors in the Yale Law School, who compete for the Townsend prize of $100 must write, are as follows : 1. "Regulation of Inter-State Commerce." 2. "Strikes." 3. "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil Rights Bill." 4. "Government Control of Telegraph." The graduating theses must be written upon the following subjects : 1. "Development of the Law of mortgages." 2. "Estoppel by Silence." 3. "Joint Ownership by Chattles." The subject for those studying for the degree of M. L. is : "The Consolidation of Railways and the Government of Cities." For those...
...petition to congress, for the repeal of the act of 1820, limiting the term of government employees to four years, is being passed about among the voters in college who are in favor of civil service reform...
...Harvard eleven from the charge of the affirmative that they had gone to Princeton with blood-thirsty intentions. The only violent talk comes from a few men not on the eleven nor truly in sympathy with it. Mr. C. R. Saunders, '84, pointed out the essential difference between civil and faculty government in the simile brought up by he negative. The faculty were not trying to hamper legitimate athletics, but simply to do away with "legalized ruffianism" and put the game of football on a higher plane than at present. The game, with the proposed modifications in the rules, would...
...course of nine lectures on the Civil War, will be delivered before the Historical Society next term...