Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...technical training is necessary, or useful. The work of this school, however, covers only part of the instruction in applied science in Harvard University; for other departments of the University have for years been carrying on most important work in applied science. The newly reorganized school includes mechanical, electrical, civil, sanitary, mining and metallurgical engineering, and industrial chemistry often called 'chemical engineering' which is intended to fit men for the chemical industries...
...scale arranged according to occupational intelligence standards ranks the engineer officers first; they are followed by army chaplains, medical officers, Y. M. C. A. secretaries, civil engineers, accountants, etc. The lowest in the scale are the teamsters, general miners, cobblers, tailors, and laborers. It must be remembered that this is a ranking of such occupations in the Army and probably does not hold in general, for the most intelligent men of a certain trade may have been exempted from the draft on industrial grounds...
Nearly all of us can remember with what savage pride we read of the Pyrrhic victory of the British troops at Bunker Hill, or of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Nor have the wounds occasioned by the Civil War been entirely healed; rash argument and unreasoning dissension still have their way in many an oral encounter...
After serving as Civil Service Commissioner and Police Commissioner of New York City, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of New York, he was in 1900 elected Vice-President. When McKinley died he became President, and on November 4, 1904, he was returned to that office by the largest vote any candidate for President had received. At this expiration of his term of office, March 4, 1909, he ended his career as public office-holder and went to Africa on a hunting expedition...
...comparing these figures with similar figures of Civil War records, it appears that the percent killed of all who engaged in active service was far greater at that time. In the Civil War, 1,342 University men served in the Union armies, and 132, or 9.8 percent, were killed, or died of wounds or disease in service. Mr. H. N. Blake '58 reports that of 304 University men in the Confederate ranks, 70, or 23.2 percent were killed. The high percent of mortality in the last case was due to the fact that Confederate soldiers had to serve...