Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although the Colonel was an honorary title, conferred by Congress, Colonel Knox was no armchair military man. He fought in the Civil War and was wounded at Gettysburg...
After the Civil War, several Negroes were elected from Southern States to take seats in the House of Representatives. Soon those Negroes nominated youths of their own race for the U. S. service academies at Annapolis and West Point. In 1873 two young Negroes passed the Annapolis entrance examinations and were admitted. Within the year both resigned, because of "deficiencies in their studies." The next year, another Negro went to study at the Naval Academy. Before his plebe (first) term was out he was dismissed, for using "profane and vile" language to a classmate...
...following character sketch of the late Professor Sophocles, who was a famous member of the Classical Department of the University many years ago, was written in 1891 by Professor George Herbert Palmer, now Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus. It is reprinted from "The Story of Fay House," a book by Mrs. George Plerce Baker, recently published by the University Press...
...which the State continues to insist, chiefly require that members of any clergy before officiating must present themselves at a registry office and subscribe their names and addresses. The Protestant clergy complied with these laws from the first, are officiating unmolested. The Catholics, deeming any obeisance to the existing civil power, however slight, incompatible with conscience, continue to regard themselves as persecuted...
Died. John Ennis, 87, of Stamford, Conn., oldtime contractor, Civil War veteran, walker, skater, swimmer, crack shot, boxer; of pneumonia; in Stamford. In 1910, he broke the transcontinental walking record, hiking from Coney Island to San Francisco in 80 days...