Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Exchange" and "Promissory Notes," while Professor Ames will take charge of the course in "Contracts." The course in "Suretyship which was to have been under Professor Ames has been given to Charles B. Barnes, A. B., '90, L. L. D., '93. Professor Beale will have the course in Civil Procedure. For 1897-98 "carriers," under Professor Beale will be given as a one hour course...
...Lyman went to Europe, but on hearing of the outbreak of the Civil War, returned to America and was commissioned aide de camp, with rank of lieutenant colonel, on the staff of Gen. Meade, then commanding the Army of the Potomac. His gallant and meritorious services were officially recognized, and at the close of the war he returned to his home with a reputation for bravery won by hard service...
...Lyman was always a man of public spirit and prominent in many charities in and about Boston. He spent much time and money in the building of Memorial Hall. In 1882, he was elected to Congress as an independent member and civil service reformer, but since 1886, he has been forced by illness to remain at his home in Brookline...
...balance was appropriated to the Civil Service Reform Club...
...that he is to speak of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw is one which will please every one. There is no part of Harvard's history in which all are more interested or of which Harvard men are more prout than the record of the University in the late Civil War; and of all the Harvard men who took part in that war there is none whose memory is more honored than that of Colonel Shaw. Major Higginson is particularly well fitted to speak of him because of the intimacy which existed between the two, and because, while in the army...