Word: civill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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GENTLEMEN: - A convention of representatives of American colleges and universities will be held in the Marquette Club rooms in Chicago, May 3, for the purpose of organizing a National League of College Civil Service Reform Clubs. While it would be too much to say that our Harvard organization has given rise to this project, it may be said to have largely contributed to it. At that convention our University should be represented, and President Eliot, Professor Dunbar, Professor Norton and others are heartily in favor of sending a delegate from the University as well as one from the Harvard Club...
...stirring talk on Civil Service Reform may be expected. The relation of wageearners to this reform will be particularly discussed...
...HAYES, Temp. Capt.HARVARD ENGINEERING SOCIETY. - There will be a meeting of the Civil Engineering Section this evening at 7.30 in Thayer...
...Professor Norton's opinion that there should be no formal address given this year, but rather some prominent man should simply read the record of those Harvard men who lost their lives in the Civil War. Professor Norton thinks, also, that the local G. A. R. post should be invited to be present at the exercises, as on Memorial Day a year ago, and that, if possible, the Glee Club should sing songs of a more patriotic character than on similar occasions heretofore, thus increasing the spirit of enthusiasm and patriotism...
...promises very well for the success of the Memorial Day exercises that plans for them are already under consideration. In past years Harvard men have not made as much of Memorial Day as they should. Harvard's participation in the Civil War and the record of her sons who fell in it, are things which ought always to be kept proudly in remembrance. To the years of the war more sentiment naturally attaches than to any other period in the history of the University; yet students are apt to forget the significance of the tablets erected in Memorial Hall...