Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...senior class at Columbia University has voted to choose the commencement officers by a competitive examination, rather than by vote. This examination, which will be similar to those of the civil service, will consist of the submission of proposed orations, speeches, poems, histories, and so forth, to the president of the class and to two Faculty members. The three best manuscripts for each office will then be laid before the class, which will then vote on the candidates who have qualified...
...Agreement provides, in general, that the University and Technology 'shall co-operate in the conduct of courses leading to degrees in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Sanitary Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy and in the promotion of research in those branches of applied science,' and that the work shall be conducted in the new Technology buildings in Cambridge. To these purposes Harvard will devote not less than three-fifths of the net income of the Gordon McKay Endowment and all of the net income from funds now credited to the Lawrence Scientific School. The Institute will devote the principal and income...
...expert opinion, the present conflict will be over in two years and possibly sooner. Then either the Allies will triumph and the German menace will be permanently overwhelmed, or Germany will triumph and her menace will be a menace thrice increased. In the latter case, the utterances of German civil and military writers, as as well as her past history, teach us what to expect. And even in the event of an Allied victory, a shifting of alliances and new complications may bring us into war. All pacifists do not hold uncompromisingly to their theories whatever befalls; witness Norman Angell...
...civil service system, pure food and anti-monopoly laws, rate, railroad and anti-discriminatory regulations all need true and staunch men to uphold and develop them in the right direction. In the foreign service men who are educated and versed in foreign languages are needed as ambassadors, ministers, secretaries, and consuls. In state governments we are passing through an era of constitutional conventions. Various changes are urged as more adapted to our present-day conditions, while in city government we note a determination to concentrate power so as to have fewer abuses and to know whom to blame...
Among his many other activities Mr. Bonaparte has been a member of the National Civil Service Reform League, president of the National Municipal League, and trustee of the Catholic University of America...