Word: civilizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...following appreciations of Payson Dana '04, late Civil Service Commissioner for Massachusetts, were written for the CRIMSON by Franklin D. Roosevelt '03, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and by James Jackson '04, former Treasurer of Massachusetts, who were intimately associated with Dana in College and civil life...
Payson Dana '04, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CRIMSON and Civil Service Commissioner for Massachusetts, died yesterday afternoon at the Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, after a lingering illness. The funeral will be held on Friday afternoon at the First Parish Unitarian Church, Brookline...
...life were devoted to public service. He was for seven years a member of the Board of Selectmen of Brookline, and for 16 years, chairman of the Brookline Playground Commission. When Calvin Coolidge was governor of the state and was looking for a responsible man to reorganize the Civil Service, he selected Mr. Dana from a large number of possible incumbents for the position of chairman of the Commission...
...Pappan had an Indian allotment near Topeka and upon it Charles Curtis was born, nearly 68 years ago.* His grandfather Louis Pappan, was a French trader. His father, of old New England stock, had roamed out to Kansas in 1856 and returned there after becoming a captain in the Civil War. While his father was away at war, small Charles Curtis lived with his Grandmother Pappan...
General Smuts had a no less difficult task, for the tide of public opinion was running fast, fast enough to promise civil war. A Boer himself, he is yet a keen, sincere imperialist, believing that the manifest destiny of the Union lies in membership in the Commonwealth. While firm for a flag that would embody the Union Jack, he nevertheless urged moderation upon his followers and it was through his tact and diplomacy that he obtained important concessions from the Government and so was able to induce his South African Party to accept the compromise...