Word: civill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Civil Procedure, Saturday, Sept...
...After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...
...Christian religion is at the basis of our civil as well as educational institutions - Christ and His church are necessarily and essentially the patrons of culture, the inspirers of education and the founders of colleges. There have been times when the church has been recreant to her trust. But history has shown that in the long run and considering the contemporary conditions she has been faithful. The past has shown that with religion at the basis of our civilization, culture will be sustained, sound learning encouraged and character upbuilt. But we have had no assuring evidence from history or from...
...College having waited for a century and a half before conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws to men outside her own number, elected George Washington as the first to whom this order should be given. Or to take a later scene, in the early days of the Civil War in 1861, the diary of the treasurer of the college tells of how he used to come to Cambridge at eight in the morning to drill the 'College troops.' A large faction of that company of students that marched around the college yard were within three or four years found...
...schools of Bradford and at Phillips Andover Academy and entered Dartmouth in 1856, but went abroad before his course was finished. On his return he took up the study of law and entered the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1860. He served with distinction in the Civil War, being attached to the Army of the Potomac for two years...