Word: civill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second prize in general inter-class debate in hall and first in extempore speaking. Last year he was one of the contestants on the preliminary Harvard debate, won one of the Junior Orator medals and the Lit. prize for Washington's Birthday Oration. He is the president of the Civil Service Reform Club, and also one of the Baird candidates...
...Graduate School, and Eugene Hanes Smith, D. M. D., dean of the Dental Faculty; appointing Henry Lee, William Sturgis Bigelow, and Arthur Astor Carey trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year from Jan. 1, 1896; John Fiske, LL. D., lecturer on "Campaigns of the Civil War West of the Alleghanies," Francis Amasa Walker, LL. D., lecturer on "Bimetallism Since the Discovery of America;" all for 1895-'96; appointing Frank Beverly Williams, A. M., instructor in Roman Law, from Sept. 1, 1895; appointing the following instructors for one year from Sept. 1, 1895: Thomas Bernard Hayden...
...early period mastered a system of education for Virginia but he only established what we might call the steeple of the church without the church. He nevertheless woke up a band of thoughtful men in the South who believed in and later acted upon his ideas. The Civil War prostrated all educational plans completely and from 1860-1870 the Southern States were more lacking in schooling than any other people in the world within the last fifty years. When the war finally ended colleges and academies immediately sprung up, but nobody could afford to send their sons to these institutions...
...done for education in the Southern States. During the past fifteen years he has been actively engaged in organizing schools and promoting the development of educational activity throughout the South. His lecture will set forth the conditions of education in the Southern States before and since the Civil War. No man is more competent than Dr. Mayo to speak on this subject. He is a ready and interesting speaker and his theme is of national interest...
...Civil Service Reform Association will probably soon be organized in the university. An informal meeting was recently held to discuss the advisability of the scheme and it seemed that such an organization would be a most useful addition to Yale's working force. The association, if formed, will not try to hold regular meetings, but will have them occasionally and will introduce several speakers prominent in the movement. An open meeting will be held next Wednesday, when informal addresses will be made by members of the faculty and measures effected toward the formation of a permanent organization...