Word: civilizations
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...been in sequence to what has preceded. The first desire for union was the result of fear of the mother country. Later, came the War of the Rebellion, the greatest war the world has ever seen, and the result was a Union, welded in the white heat of civil combat. This was not planned, it was evolved. The policy of national liberality to those who have built railroads and factories, was of vast importance to the further development of the Union. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been characterized by contests for territory, but the twentieth century will be characterized...
...from Harvard, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He practised law for a time, and was ordained a Congregational minister in 1860. Since then he 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 freedmen. 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...
...Bureau of Insular Affairs announcing the need of teachers for the Philippine service. About 120 teachers will be needed for this work, and it is desired to secure them in time to permit their arriving in the Philippines before June 9, 1907, when the next school year begins. The civil service examinations for these appointments will be held in Boston, December 27 and 28. Full information may be obtained at once from the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department, Washington, D. C. The circular may be seen at the Appointments Office, University...
Professor S. M. Macvane '73 gave a lecture last night in the New Lecture Hall on "The Church Crisis in France." The laws against the Church, he said, began in 1789, when the tithes due to the church were suppressed and its estates confiscated. Then the civil constitution for clergy, providing for the payment of church officers out of state funds was passed, but rejected by the Church. With the Revolution came the secularization of church properties, lasting until Napoleon's Concordat, which provided that mandates of the Pope should have no effect without the consent of the King. Although...
...Leupp has been editor of the Syracuse Herald; Washington correspondent and assistant editor of the New York Evening Post; and editor of "Good Government," the official organ of the National Civil Service Reform League. He was a member of the United States Indian Commission during Cleveland's administration, and is at present United States Commissioner of Indian affairs. Mr. Leupp is the author of several books on the civil service...