Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ropes was widely known as an historical writer. Among his best works are the "Story of the Civil War," "The Army under Pope," "The First Napoleon: A Sketch, Political and Military," "The Campaign of Waterloo" and the "Atlas of Waterloo...
...Civil Service Reform Club. Meeting to organize for the coming year. Short addresses by Professor Hart, Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell, and Mr. Richard H. Dana. Sever...
...soldiers engaged in the Philippines could easily spare some of the enthusiasm of their receptions on their return home if the people of the United States would do a little toward enlivening their existence when they are on the other side of the world. Experience in the civil war demonstrated that homesickness is not a disorder belonging to the nursery age. Hundreds of strong men were so oppressed with it that the slightest indisposition often developed alarming symptoms, and the patient pined and died without any apparent cause. This was on our won soil when...
...will send the boys something to remind them that they are not forgotten, something to impress them with the hearty sympathy of the American people for the men who are fighting their battles, they will do an act of duty as well as charity. In the days of the civil war the arrivals of boxes from home were the most joyful events of the southern camps, and the boys in the Philippines should be remembered all the more because they are so far away...
...United States Civil Service Commission announces that on June 15, 1898, examination for the grade of cadet in the Revenue Cutter Service, Treasury Department, may be taken at any city in the United States where the Commission has a competent board of examiners. This examination will consist of the subjects named below, which are weighted as follows...