Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...United States Civil Service Commission announces examinations on December 27 and 28 to secure eligibles to fill 300 vacancies in the position of teacher in the Philippine service at an entrance salary...
Since the realization of intellectual and civil freedom in the nineteenth century, the Jews have begun to emerge from their prolonged seclusion, and the contrast of ideals is renewed. But, though the contrast is again in evidence, let there be no conflict. Let the Jewish ideal, that of goodness and character, combine with the beauty and culture, which the western races have inherited from the Greeks, to form a single, solid basis upon which to lay the foundations of future greatness...
...from Harvard though he did most of the work required for that degree. He received the Divinity School degree in 1836, and in 1840 was given an honorary A.M. During the year 1835-6 he was instructor in Greek in the University. In the years prior to the Civil War he was a leader in the Abolition movement and gained a wide reputation as a lecturer and writer...
...annually goes to the education of the people. Such a drain on the finances of the country is the cause of the annual famines, and indirectly of the plagues, by which India is decimated. The Hindoos are discriminated against unfairly on account of their color; the Civil Service is closed to them, as well as all commands in the army...
...members of the University, will begin its sixteenth annual session on Monday, October 14. The classes will meet one or two evenings a week until May, and courses will be given in Algebra, Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, Chemistry, Economics, Commercial Law, Composition and Geography. With the exception of the special civil service course, and the stenography and typewriting courses, all the instruction is given by students or instructors of the University. In addition to the regular program of classes, there will be occasional lectures by prominent speakers on current topics, with music on Sunday afternoons during November, December, and January. Following these...