Word: war
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Edmund Baker Edwards '98, a former superintendent of the Boston Towboat Company, died of pneumonia in Berkeley, California on Saturday. During the Spanish War he enlisted in the navy with a number of his classmates. At the close of the war he went to the University of Glasgow where he studied marine engineering. Returning later to Harvard he received the degree of S. B. A few months ago he left for California to take a position with a water-wheel company...
...professional schools who have received an academic degree, and to all graduates of Harvard College of not more than three years' standing; the Summer prize of $100, for the best dissertation on a subject connected with the topic of universal peace and the methods by which war may be permanently superseded,--open to all students of the University; and the Bennett prize of $40, for the best essay on some subject of domestic or foreign governmental policy of contemporaneous interest,--open to all members of the Senior class of the College and to special students in the third or fourth...
...meeting appropriate to the anniversary of the birth of Lincoln will be held in the First Parish Church, Cambridge, at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Colonel T. W. Higginson '41, Hon. John Read '62 and Rev. George Batchelor '66 will speak of their memories of Civil War times...
...never guilty of them, and some are only guilty of them when they lose their tempers; but others are habitually guilty of them." The common justification offered for these "hateful conditions," President Eliot says, is that football is a fight and that its strategy and ethics are those of war. New tricks are always desirable as surprises; the weaker man is the legitimate prey of the stronger. "One should always try to discover the weakest man in the opponent's line, as, for example, the man most recently injured, and attack him again and again. If a man, by repeated...
Dean Ames of the Law School introduced the speaker, who began by showing that when free speech and free learning were prohibited in the South as a whole, they were preserved in the mountain districts of Eastern Kentucky by the abolitionist pioneers. Berea College was founded during the Civil War and thirty-nine years ago negroes were admitted. Its first work was to assist the process of reconstruction and to start the negro in his new life...