Word: civil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same article remarks that the European country where professors enjoyed best treatment in the civil service--and in all Continental countries the teacher is almost invariably a state employee--was, of all nations, Czaristic Russia. Under the "Tchin," or semimilitary hierarchy instituted by Peter the Great and in force up to the revolution, a Russian college professor had the rank and salary of a lieutenant-colonel. Evan in Germany, where a similar, if less rigid, standardization of officialdom prevailed, the professor's rating was that of a major only. --New York Tribune...
Since receiving his honorable discharge as a first lieutenant in the Motor Transport Corps, Mr. Galaid has returned to his former civil profession and has been devoting himself especially to the new field of airplane photography with marked success. In addition to the pictures of the University, he has taken a number of excellent views of Camp Devens, and of the buildings at M. I. T. and Brown and Yale Universities. The notable clearness of Mr. Galaid's pretures is due to a special secret process which he has himself developed...
...world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds would be generously cultivated through long generations of Harvard youth, and on which he erected a monument to youthful friends of his who fell in the Civil War, and the Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship among Harvard students would be forever cultivated; because he had proved himself to be the most successful promoter of good music that Eastern Massachusetts had ever known; and because he was the intimate friend of Alexander Agassiz...
...decided but the ablest men of the country are now at work on the problem. The war taught France that education has passed from a luxury into a necessity. When early in the war, thousands of our officers were killed, we were forced to call on men from civil life and, naturally those best educated, best filled...
...renovating of Pierce Hall was brought to a close. As a result, buildings, in which a year ago some 6,000 blue jackets were being taught wireless telegraphy, have now been so thoroughly made over that they contain a most comprehensive group of modern electrical, sanitary, mechanical and civil engineering laboratories of the highest order, as well as ample accommodations for all the allied fields of study given at the Engineering School...