Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...MEMORIAL SERVICE to commemorate the Sons of Harvard who fell in the Civil War. Sanders Theatre, 12 M. General Horace Porter, LL.D., will deliver the address. Students will assemble by classes in front of University Hall at 11.30 A. M., and, with the officers of the University, members of the Memorial Society, other graduates, and members of Charles Beck Post, G. A. R., march to Sanders Theatre. It is suggested that those who would like to do so bring flowers to be placed under the tablets in the Memorial Transept...
...first and second cups offered by the Speaker's Club for the best original ten-minute speeches on any subject whatever, the first cup was awarded to St. J. Perret '10, who delivered "A Eulogy over the Tomb of Father Turgis, a Chaplain of the Southern Army in the Civil War, on the Occasion of a Reunion of Confederate Veterans." B. S. Van Rensselaer '10 was awarded the second cup for a speech on "Social Life at Harvard." The judges were E. Bernbaum '02, F. W. C. Hersey '99, and A. H. Lyber...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Financial History of Texas to the Civil War." Mr. E. T. Miller. University...
More than forty years of domestic peace have healed the wounds left by the Civil War. At the close of the struggle, many who had left Harvard for the front returned to complete their course. Others there were who did not return, but died on the battlefield,--soldiers of the North and soldiers of the South. Memorial Hall was built as a tribute to the gallantry of those who fell fighting for the Union. Probably a greater number left Harvard to join Confederate ranks than fought in the war with Spain. Would it not be a fitting token...
...entered the Law School, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1874. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced for several years in Baltimore. He entered politics early in his career, and became prominent in many reform movements. He was made chairman of the council of the national Civil Service Reform League, president of the National Civic Federation. In 1905 he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt, a position which he held for a year and a half, when he was made Attorney-General. He remained in this position until the present administration...