Word: civilizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decrease in the number of students in College this year is much greater than the corresponding registration figures for the period of the Civil War, according to statistics compiled by the College Office. In fact, during the first three years of the Civil War the number of undergraduates remained practically constant, while this year the College has lost more than 900 men, a decrease of more than one-third as compared to last year's registration...
...University war records of the Civil War were not compiled until after 1865, and great difficulty was experienced then in obtaining complete data...
...impression is false, and the statements are lies. The death rate in the Allied armies on the western front is only about four times that of the same age, in civil life--and there are many occupations of peace which are no less hazardous than the occupation of making...
...then went on to show of what inestimable value to this country a respectable force of regulars would have been at the beginning of the Civil War. and in the first two years of the present European struggle. "If the United States had had three brigades of regulars in 1861 they could have occupied Richmond, New Orleans and Charleston, and stopped the war there. If, in 1915, the United States had had a regular force of half a million, and fairly efficient reserve of twice that number, it is my belief," said Professor Johnston, "That the Lusitania would never have...
...Russia to Petrograd, where we arrived August 7. The object of the Mission was to give aid to the Russian people in their prosecution of the war by furnishing needed supplies for the care of the sick and wounded in the army and relief to the needy among the civil population. My own time was devoted largely to a study of the vital statistics of the army and an inspection of the sani- tary conditions and the ambulance and hospital service at the Russian front. This brought me in contact with General Korniloff and other Russian officers and with...