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Major Daly was once a Harvard captain. He was appointed to West Point on the eve of the Yale game. He graduated. He served for a time in the Army and eventually resigned. A special act of Congress got him back after he had found civil life uncongenial. His principal duty since restoration to the officers' list has been as coach of the West Point eleven. Recently he was ordered to duty with troops. Now Harvard needs him. Harvard gets...
...simple-minded; he was one of the greatest brains produced in the Civil War, ruled by a rigid integrity. His preliminary internal struggle on the question of loyalty to his state as against loyalty to the Union was decided not by a puritanical conception of duty, as General Maurice would have one believe, but by the dictates of a high sense of personal honor. He must have realized that the life of the nation was jeopardized by the Southern secession, but when Virginia called him, he felt that he could not give his allegiance elsewhere. There is no grander picture...
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...Chamber of Deputies proposed to give the lesser functionaries of the Civil Service a bonus of 500 francs ($25.00) as compensation for a delay in revising their salaries. The Senate objected. The Chamber insisted. The Senate was adamant. The Chamber sat pat. The Senate weakened, finally passed the necessary bill by a majority of twelve votes...
Mathematicians, physicists, opticians, chemists, electrochemists, astronomers, geologists, geographers, seismologists, zoologists, eugenicists, mammalogists, botanists, phytopathologists, plant physiologists, ecologists, geneticists, pharmacologists, historians, philologists, paleontologists, microscopists, anthropologists, physiologists, psychologists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, mining and metallurgical engineers, civil engineers, illuminating engineers, ceramicists, medics, anatomists, bacteriologists, agronomists, foresters, horticulturalists, educators, political scientists and simple naturalists-all assembled last week in Washington to hear and to tell (in accordance with their discoveries, observations, deductions) the truth...