Word: civilizations
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President Eliot was re-elected president of the National Civil Service Reform League at the league's meeting in Milwaukee on Saturday. Among other officers elected were R. W. Belcher '06, secretary, and G. T. Keyes '89, assistant secretary. The league again urged the passage of the pending bill for the improvement of the foreign service, and went on record as opposed to all preferences of individuals or of special classes in making government appointments. It also expressed confidence in President-elect Wilson to support the merit principle...
...other reasons, the army should remain in the Islands for many years to come, and that while the Moros were a race with many remarkable characteristics, they were in no way suited for self government, being accustomed to and respecting only a power which combined the civil and military control in the same hands...
...technical portion of this issue is largely devoted to matters which more particularly interest the civil engineer. The Diversion Works for the Arrowrock Dam, which when complete, will be the highest dam in the world, and The improvement of the Neponset River are important from a hydraulic and sanitary engineering point of view respectively...
...interest and advantage of timeliness dealing as it does, most pertinently with our immediate political situation. The note for the issue is already struck on the cover which bears an excellent print of the great steel dome, erected over the Capitol at Washington during the troublous years of the Civil...
Professor G. F. Moore, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at the Harvard Divinity School, will give the last of a series of four lectures on "Civil and Criminal Aspects of the Old Testament" under the auspices of the Law School Christian Association, in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 6.45 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be "Larceny, Robbery, Bailments...