Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...parents, guardians or tutors. The scholars shall never use their Mother-tongue except in public exercises of oratory, where they are called to make them in English. No scholar whatever, without the acquaintance and leave of ye President and his Tutor shall be present at any of ye Publike Civil meetings or Concourse of people; nor shall he take tobacco unless permitted by ye President with ye consent of his parents or guardians, and on good reason first given by a Physitian and then in a sober and private manner." Another rule was made providing punishment for the Seniors' practice...
Several books on law and jurispruduence are also announced. "Cases on Constitutional Law," by Professor Wambaugh, an exhaustive work in four parts, two remaining to be published, is a case book for the study of the American Constitution. Others are "Cases on Civil Procedure," by Professor Scott and "Cases on Legal Liability," by Professor Beale...
...teaching there was existed in church schools only, in which Latin was the official languages. We all know what it meant, some centuries ago, to have even the slightest education. If a man could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon, or to inflict comparatively mild punishment...
...Sanders Theatre at noon Saturday. After prayers by Professor Francis G. Peabody '69 and the singing of "Fair Harvard," Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, introduced the speaker of the day, Colonel Charles Fessenden Morse '58, of Falmouth, who fought in four of the most important battles of the Civil War: Gettysburg, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, and Chancellorsville...
...entrance of Memorial Hall the line of undergraduates will open up, allowing the members of the G. A. R. and veterans to march into the transept where they will salute the tablets commemorated to Harvard men who were killed in the civil war. After this ceremony, the whole company will take the seats reserved for them on the ground floor in Sanders Theatre...