Word: civillized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...citizens are invited to apply. They will be examined, graded and certified, with entire impartiality and wholly without regard to any consideration save their ability as shown by the grade they attain in the examination. Persons desiring to enter this examination should at once write to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., for application blanks, Form 304, which should be properly executed and promptly forwarded to the Commission. The salary of a cadet is $500 per annum and one (1) ration...
Eleven men intend to be architects; 6 life insurance and real estate agents; 7 chemists; 3 brokers; 2 salesmen; 7 merchants; 4 railroad men; 4 publishers; 13 mechanical and civil engineers; 6 bankers; 2 landscape architects; and 2 contractors. Sixteen men will continue their studies in the Graduate School or abroad, and 18 intend to enter some form of business. There are 68 men undecided as to their future occupations...
...flag at present hanging over Hubbard's pharmacy was hung in the same place in '61 and throughout the Civil...
...Bowditch '61, cavalry officer during the war, took up first the desirability of the different branches of army service. He recommended the light artillery as being perhaps the most inspiring and attractive. The exeriece of the cavalry in the Civil War proved the fallacy of the statement that the cavalry man seldom meets death on the field. In one battle the First Massachusetts Cavalry lost 186 men and officers out of a total of 300, and the experience of other cavalry troops was similar. Dr. Bowditch closed his lecture with a graphic account of army life. His troop seldom suffered...
...Abbott M. S. '62, Assistant Surgeon in the Navy during the Civil War, compared the condition of the Navy at the present time with that during the war. At the outbreak of the Rebellion, the first ironclad was in course of construction. This ship was never completed, but by the end of the war, 85 ironclads had been launched or were building at the navy yards. Since sea fighting was carried on under such close range in the Civil War, the superiority of the men was a most important factor. Men of all sizes and ages are eligible...