Word: national
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Godkin lectures are delivered under an endowment given to the University in 1903 by friends of Edwin L. Godkin, the late editor of the Nation, as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption. The lectureship was inaugurated in 1904 by James Bryce, now British ambassador, whose subject was "The Study of Popular Governments...
...church, to which membership and support were optional. The Levitical Code was regulative, not mandatory. It did not require worship, but prescribed absolute forms for those who chose to worship or to make sacrifices. Blasphemy was a capital offense, being considered perversion of Jehovah, the supreme ruler of the nation, and therefore treason. The Covenant of Moses, the most ancient book of the Hebrews, demanded reverence for God, respect for parents, and regard for the rights of fellow...
...School he practiced law in Boston and with Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 edited the American Law Review. In 1875 Mr. Sedgwick moved to New York and was admitted to the bar there. He was for some years on the editorial staff of the Evening Post and of the Nation and has besides written several treatises...
...number of bridges, besides constructing the Boston subways. He has been a member of the Boston Transit Commission since its organization in 1894 and has done much to simplify traffic conditions in Boston. He has also studied the subject of the conservation of the natural resources of the nation, and last spring was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the national commission in charge of that work. He is well known as an author of scientific works, and has written many papers on subjects pertaining to engineering...
...King Nimrod with difficulty evades the blandishments of the queen. The scene of the second act is laid at the bast of the tower of Babel. Hem and Haw settle their differences and attempt to complete the tower when they are frustrated by that famous catastrophe. The nation of Babylon is disorganized by the confusion of tongues, and in disgust Nimrod leaves with the queen for Egypt...