Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Civil War caused an upheaval at West Point. Divergent views and opinions from all parts of our country were expressed and strongly supported by members of the Corps. The intense feeling aroused by John Brown's raid resulted in a number of serious fights, and, although the authorities did not relax the customary discipline, cadets agitated by State feeling cared little for punishment or demerits received,. Seceding Southern States took with them their sons who, once loyal Unionists were soon to tear at the throats of their Northern Classmates. The names of Grant, Jackson, Stuart, and Lee will live long...
...considers his career finds it an organic, continually expanding entity. A graduate in 1864, he returned to teach Philosophy in 1872, and assumed in 1889 the wider duties of the Alford Professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity. Through the period of his teaching, he wrote works on philosophy, education, and English, with the concrete directness of a popularizer of knowledge who could still retain dignity. This attitude was progressive; an ideal of both the University...
...obliged to pretend being his mother's young brother, to him and her a distasteful hypocrisy. Engineering he studied at Paris's College of Bridges & Highways (where he graduated at the head of his class with honors) and at the University of Illinois (Illinois gave him his Civil Engineer de gree) then he hastened to Cracow, Poland, his birthplace, to marry Felicie Benda, childhood friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago has been his headquarters ever since. Thence he has traveled to design and build great...
...shall we be allowed to read, what plays to see, what to believe, and where to hold meetings?" The problem will be discussed by Professor Chafee, Dr. Abraham Myerson, of Tufts Medical School, E. A. Weeks, Jr., of the Atlantic Monthly, and John S. Codman, Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee. Thomas J. McGrath, Mayor of Quincy, was to have spoken, but found today that he would be unable to be present...
According to its secretary, the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee has been loosely organized for some time. The present need galvanized it into action, and the meeting tonight is the first step toward combatting the Boston censors...