Word: civill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...civil war terminated on the second term of 66's junior year. It was a war for freedom. Such a war offers an opportunity for great bravery and selfsacrifice, and Harvard had her share of heroes in Shaw, Bartlett, Davis, Wilder, Dwight, and many others. While war offers a great opportunity for heroes, peace offers an equally good one. Lowell said, "It is peace which is the nursery of the virtues that shine...
This evening in Sanders Theatre the Hon. Moorfield Storey will deliver the second lecture in the course on Harvard's history. Mr. Storey will tell of Harvard during the sixties, and as the first part of his lecture will relate to the exciting period of the Civil War, it should be of great interest...
...other appointments and reappointments are as follows: G. A. Gordon, D. D., lecturer on the immortality of man for 1896; Asaph Hall, Ph. D., lecturer on celestial mechanics for 1896-97; F. C. Huntington, A. M., L.L.B., lecturer on pleading and practice under the New York code of civil procedure until Sept. 1, 1896; J. G. Jack, lecturer at the Arnold Arboretum for 1896-97; Professor E. B. Delabarre, director of the psychological laboratory for 1896-97; George Rublee, A. B. LL.B., instructor in contracts until Sept 1, 1896; John Cummings, Ph. D., instructor in political economy...
...Civil Engineering section of the Engineering Society met last evening in Grays 46. Papers were read by Mr. C. J. Tilden, L. S. '96, on Maps of the Government Survey, and by Mr. M. H. Wright '97, on Irrigation in the Crow Reservation. It was voted to hold a dinner at the end of the year, and a committee was appointed to make all arrangements...
After sketching President Sparks's term of office which began in 1849 and noting his opposition to the elective system, President Eliot concluded by contrasting the quiet state of the University during the fifties with the period of distraction and turmoil which followed during the Civil War. He referred...