Word: civillized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wright '97 was elected chairman of the Civil Engineering Section of the Harvard Engineering Society last evening...
WILLIAM L. W. FIELD, Sec.H. E. S.- There will be a meeting of the Civil Engineering Section this evening at eight o'clock in Hollis Hall, No. 19. Mr. C. R. Perry will talk on the "Roof Shield used in a portion of the Subway." Election of chairman for the ensuing year...
LECTURE by Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson. Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson of Concord is to lecture at the Prospect Union this evening at eight o'clock. His subject will be, "The Lesson of the Soldier-a story of the Civil War." He will give an account of the life of Charles Russell Lowell. The lecture is open...
...revolution. The revolutionary method prevailed. The result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought to avoid it. But revolution sits North and South opposed them and war followed...
...weekly meeting of the Freshman Debating Club was held last evening in Sever 11, with about forty members present. The question discussed was: "Resolved, That the Civil Service Act should be extended to all departments of the government service." F. C. Gulick and H. A. Frieberg spoke on the affirmative and M. Davis and A. C. Gould on the negative. Several members also spoke from the floor. The debate was decided in favor of the negative...