Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...received the degree of D.D. from that institution and from Harvard, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He was ordained a minister in 1860, and has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church, New York, and Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For three years after the Civil War he was secretary of the American Union Commission for the aid of freemen, and in 1869 he resigned his pastorate at New York to devote himself to literature. He edited the "Literary Record," of Harper's Magazine, and was associate editor of the "Christian Union" with Henry Ward Beecher...
...needs of the city, and found hundreds of people receiving good salaries and doing not the slightest work for the city. Since then, there has been some reform, but not until this year was there any great change. The Legislature is also helping with a bill to give the Civil Service Commission the power to regulate the salaries of all city officials...
Soldiers Field was given to the University in 1890 by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 in commemoration of the soldiers of the University who lost their lives in the Civil War. Major Higginson suggested that it be used as a playground to take the place of Holmes Field which had become inadequate on account of the increased number of students using...
...many years Gen. Woodford has been prominent in the political and military affairs of the country. In 1857 he was messenger of the New York electoral college which conveyed to Washington the vote for Abraham Lincoln as president. In the Civil War he became brevet-brigadier-general of volunteers and was first military governor of Charleston, S. C. After the war, Gen. Woodford resumed the practice of law, and in 1867 was elected lieutenant-governor of New York He was president of the electoral college that voted for U. S. Grant as president. In 1873 he was a member...
...Jeffersonian System, by E. Channing '78; The Rise of American Nationality, by K. C. Babcock '95; The Jacksonian Democracy, by W. Macdonald '92; Slavery and Abolition, by A. B. Hart '90; Parties and Slavery, by T. C. Smith '92; The Appeal to Arms, and Outcome of the Civil War, by J. K. Hosmer '55; National Ideals Historically Traced, by A. B. Hart '80; Index to the Series, by D. M. Matteson...