Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor F. W. Taussig '79 has been selected by the Department of Economics of Amherst College to deliver the Henry Ward Beecher Lectures at that college for the current year. Three lectures will be given on the general subject of "The Economic Effects of the Tariff since the Civil War." The first lecture will take place Wednesday and the other two will follow on April...
General Porter studied at the Lawrence Scientific School and is a graduate of West Point. He served in the field through the Civil War, and received the Congressional medal of honor for gallantry at Chickamauga. After the War, he became private secretary to President Grant, a position which he held for ten years. In 1904 he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor by the French government. Last summer he was United States delegate to the Hague Conference...
...Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute for Indians and Negroes was opened in April 1868 in the old barracks of one of the military hospitals of the Civil War, with an enrollment of 15 students and two teachers. Today there are more than 60 modern buildings, 1361 students representing 35 states and territories and five foreign countries, while the corps of teachers and officers has been increased...
...manifested in bonfires in the Yard, and in other pranks. This is now worked off in organized athletics, though there is no necessity for the "rough, violent, fierce sports commonly thought necessary to the development of martial qualities." The fact that over 1200 Harvard men served honorably in the Civil War, over 160 of them giving up their lives, is ample proof that the "martial spirit" was alive in the Harvard of fifty years...
...Contempt of Court, Criminal and Civil," by J. H. Beale, Jr., '82; "Reasonableness of Maximum Rates as a Constitutional Limitation upon Rate Regulation," by F. M. Cobb; "Right of a Stockholder, Suing in Behalf of a Corporation, to Complain of Misdeeds Occurring Prior to His Acquisition of Stock," by M. Sea songood...