Word: civilizations
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...This bridge was built in memory of Nicholas Longworth Anderson, graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1858; adjutant colonel; brevet brigadier, and major general of volunteers in the Civil War. To a father...
...entered business. In 1885 he retired, in order to devote himself to a literary life. His greatest work, finished in 1906, is a history of the United States from 1850 to 1877. More recently, he has published a series of lectures delivered at Oxford in 1913 on the American Civil War, and a volume of Historical Essays. His high scholarship has been everywhere admitted, and several universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Oxford, have conferred degrees upon him. He has received honors from several foreign and American academies and associations...
Soon after his graduation from College in 1859 Mr. Gray entered the army and served throughout the Civil War. After the War he became professor in the Law School and received the degree of LL.D. from both Yale and Harvard. He was long prominent in law circles in Boston, having been for many years a member of the present firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins...
President Schurman urges in the first place that the Government offer such commissions in the regular army to the best trained men in the military departments of our colleges and universities, that after a year, they may return to civil life, retaining their commissions as officers of the reserve. Next, he suggests that such institutions as already have military training go a step further and establish regular military departments, in which those desiring to fit themselves for the military profession might study the theoretical branches underlying that profession, as is now done at West Point, while at the same time...
Proper embassies in foreign cities are also important. The unsatisfactory quarters of most American ambassadors compare very unfavorably with the magnificent and stately dwellings of those of the other nations of the world. If the Department of State would spend more money on its foreign service and less on Civil War pensions all this would be eliminated...