Word: civils
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poet of the Williams Argo views with hilarity the prospect of the reform of the civil service and the introduction of "competitive examinations." He explains his little scheme as follows...
...which he owned and edited for more than ten years. In 1850 Mr. Bowen returned to the college under an appointment to the McLean Professorship of History, but held the office only six months. Three years later he was made Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, the office which he now holds...
...faith, and the polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second, the system of conferring degrees, after appropriate trials. These were at first simply a license to teach. Third, the formal organization of the primitive university. Europe was unsettled; even in the capitals, the civil power was often unhinged. Wherever multitudes came together there was manifested a spirit of turbulence. The universities often exemplified this fact; and it was found necessary to establish a government within themselves, the leading feature of which was the office called the rectorship, the incumbent of which had the power...
...United States Supreme Court has decided that the section of the civil-rights act relating to conspiracy to deprive any person of equal protection of the laws, is unconstitutional on the ground that the law infringes upon the reserved rights of the States...
Preparations for civil war are being made in France...