Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...based upon the familiar college song of former times, "The Lay of One Fishball." His purpose in writing it was to have it sung as a public entertainment, the proceeds to be used for helping the loyalists of eastern Tennessee who had been impoverished by the ravages of the Civil War. Professor Child submitted his Italian verses to James Russell Lowell '38 for revision. Lowell at once "dashed off" an English version, and the thing was printed as a little pamphlet of 31 pages, with the Italian verses on one side of the leaf and Lowell's English interpretations...
Josiah Royce held the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Poetry at Harvard between 1914 and 1916. Royce was a member of the American Academy, and the American Philosophical Society...
...came as near as he could to "weaseling" the whole business. Blowing out his lungs to the full on the sacredness of the Constitution, including a long quotation from George Washington's Farewell Address, condemning State-determinism as a threat to Federal sovereignty which he supposed the Civil War had ended forever, Candidate Willis floated over the fourth question on his initial impetus, omitting all economic and moral considerations that attach specifically to Prohibition. He said...
...Coal and Iron Police," badged and deputized by the Governor of Pennsylvania; uniformed, armed and paid by the operators. The Coal and Iron Police were first formed during the Civil War, to guard Northern mines from Southern raiders. During the present "civil war," some 4,000 Coal and Iron Police have been operating...
Married. Miss Beatrice Fuller, 19, white, descendant of Nathaniel Lyon, Union general and Connecticut Civil War hero, of Rockville, Conn.; to Clarence Kellem, 23, Negro, of Rockville, Conn.; in Ellington, Conn...