Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Major J. F. Huntington met an audience last evening as crowded and attentive as those which have listened to the previous lecturers in the Civil War course...
...interest which has been shown by the undergraduates in the lectures on the Civil War given each week shows that the military spirit has not entirely died out in this college. Why would not a course on military science be of interest as well as instructive to the students? Most of the men who enter Harvard are totally ignorant of everything military except what they may have learned accidentally from the perusal of histories. This is a country averse to large standing armies. Consequently corps of well educated officers and military schools where men are instructed to become officers...
Theme 4 will be due on Thursday, March 13. Subject, a Narrative. (Subjects from the Civil War are suggested. See the outline of the course of lectures before the Historical Society posted in the library, and the books reserved by Mr. Hart...
...recent conference of Republicans who favor Civil Service Reform, which was held in New York a few days ago, is another proof of the expediency of doing something to stir up the students on this most important subject. This meeting was called by young men, and was managed by them throughout, the older leaders deferring that to them entirely. Within a few years those now in college will be at just the right age for this work, and their influence, if they are properly instructed now, will be immense. Moreover, these young men at New York, of whom several were...
...great success attending the first of the lectures on the Civil War, delivered under the auspices of the Historical Society, is certainly encouraging to that organization. The only drawback was the lack of room, which clearly shows that Sever Hall is not the place for the remaining lectures of the course. Why a lecture in Sanders should be such a rare treat to us we fail to understand. The principal reason that suggests itself is the fear of the lecturer being unable to distinguish his audience among so many empty seats. But this fear need not trouble the succeeding lecturers...