Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fallen in the war President Lowell, expressing the feeling of the anxious audience, spoke of that occasion as "the darkest day since the United States entered the war." With the German hordes pouring over the Marne, the allied armies apparently unable to give any adequate resistance, civilization seemed very much in the balance. And Memorial Day took on a new significance. Instead of a time-honored function to commemorate the dead of the Civil and the Spanish Wars,--a memory of battles which somehow lacked reality to the generation of college men,--we were gathered in honor of men, some...
Announcement of the summer session of the Engineering School, which will begin June 2, and will continue until August 8, was made yesterday by Professor H. M. Hughes. The schedule includes courses for all Engineering School men except present third-year men in Civil Engineering who should consult Professor Hughes at once about their summer work...
...percentage of American college men who gave up their lives in the Civil War is much larger than that of those who made the great sacrifice in the present war, although the total number is much smaller. The University's percentage of 11.2 in the war of secession is more than eight per cent, greater than the present rate, but only 1,232 students took part in that struggle, of whom 138 died...
Such instructors as Professors Smyth, Hughes, and Swain in the departments of Mining and Civil Engineering have a wide reputation. Professor Sauveur, who has just returned from important war work with the French government, has received international recognition...
...will invite the families of all members of the University who have lost their lives in the great war. The services are to be especially commemorative of these men. All officers and graduates of the University are invited to be present, particularly the surviving Harvard veterans of the Civil War, as well as the Charles Beck Post...