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...LL.B. in 1874. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced for several years in Baltimore. He entered politics early in his career, and became prominent in many reform movements. He was made chairman of the council of the national Civil Service Reform League, president of the National Civic Federation. In 1905 he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt, a position which he held for a year and a half, when he was made Attorney-General. He remained in this position until the present administration. In 1904 he was Republican presidential elector from Maryland...
...annual convention of the Intercollegiate Civic League will be held in New York today. Delegates are expected from all the thirty colleges of the league, and from about twenty others to whom special invitations have been issued. All the principal eastern colleges and numerous western institutions will be represented. The Harvard delegates will be J. R. Gilman '09 and R. S. Hoar...
...Boston, and editor of the International Library, will speak this evening in the Assembly Room of the Union at 8 o'clock on "The United States as a World Power." The lecture will be under the auspices of the newly organized Patria Society, a society to rouse patriotic and civic interests among the members of the University...
...more demonstrative natures. But although we cannot grasp its full significance, we can surely sympathize with an endeavor which aims, as we believe Dr. Chapman's does, to bring about such practical results as the strengthening of the moral fibre and the fostering of a higher integrity in our civic governments...
...owes to his fellow-countrymen all the use he can make of his power, dependent on his vocation in the community, for some professions are more widely looked to for public benefits than others. We cannot claim that the theatre has been neglected socially or commercially; but as a civic institution it has been overlooked and ignored...