Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton's commencement held yesterday, the degree of Doctor of Humanities was conferred upon George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in the University. In presenting the honorary degree to Professor Palmer Dean West of Princeton said...
...government has 815 Harvard men in its employ. The diplomatic and consular service contains 95, and the rest are distributed among other branches as follows: civil service 412, judiciary 159, military 138, legislative(not including members of Congress...
...Garfield, a son of the former President of the United States, is a graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Law School. He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1896 to 1899, and has subsequently served on the United States Civil Service Commission. From 1903 to 1907 he was commissioner of corporations in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and in 1907 he became Secretary of the Interior...
Professor G.F. Swain, of the civil engineering department, delivered a lecture on "The Relation of Forests to the Flow of Streams" before the Engineering Society and Forestry Club in Pierce 110 yesterday afternoon...
...degree of LL.D., in 1894, 1895, 1906, and 1909 respectively. He also received the degree of Litt.D. from Western Reserve in 1897. Professor Palmer began his connection with the University Faculty in 1870 as a tutor in Greek and became Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity in 1889. Besides being an authority on questions of ethics, he is the author of several books, some of which are: "The Glory of the imperfect," "Self Cultivation in English," and "The Field of Ethics...