Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...United States Government, which will be given in the New Lecture Hall on Friday, February 26. General William Crozier, Chief of the Ordnance Department, who was a member of the Hague Tribunal, will speak on "War Preparations in Times of Peace," and Mr. James Rudolph Garfield, formerly United States Civil Service Commissioner, and now head of the Bureau of Corporations of the new Department of Commerce and Labor, will speak on, "The Civil Service of the United States." Dean Hurlbut will preside at the meeting, which will be open to the public...
...York, will speak in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock, on "The Puritan and the Government" of the Modern American City." Mr. Shepard graduated from the College of the City of New York in the class of 1869. From 1883 to 1885 he was a civil service commissioner of Brooklyn and was chairman of the civil service committee of that city from 1888 to 1890. During the year 1884 to 1885 he was a member of the New York State Forestry Commission. Mr. Shepard is a prominent lawyer and an active Democrat. In the municipal elections...
...Construction of the Harvard Stadium." He will describe the nature and the characteristics of the materials used in the building of the Stadium and will explain the principles of steel-concrete construction. Professor Johnson gave a more technical description of this subject before the Boston Society of Civil Engineers last Tuesday...
...years until 1898. He had been a member of the State Library Commission, of the State Board of Charities, of the Massachusetts Historical Society and of the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester; of the Lancaster Town Library and Committee, and of the G. A. R. During the Civil War he was adjutant and captain of the 55th Illinois volunteers. He was professor of ancient languages at the Phillips Exeter Academy from 1853 to 1955. As an author he was the writer of many well-known antiquarian works...
...only to club members, will be held by the Political Club every three weeks during the coming mid-term. It is hoped, however, that a general meeting, open to the University can be arranged for the middle of February, at which Mr. James R. Garfield of the United States Civil Service Commission will speak. Any men who desire to join the club are asked to send their names to R. A. Derby, Westmorly 126, in order that they may be proposed for membership...