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...years after his birth, he obtained his Civil Engineer's degree in Rome. He then went to the U. S. as plain Signor G. Castania and out west to work for John Hays Hammond, who, having noticed "the young and intelligent miner," promised to keep his name and rank a secret...
Mexico. The civil war which has been raging in the United States of Mexico is officially supposed to be over, but fighting between Rebels and Federal troops occurred during the week at various points in the southern states of Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, Hidalgo. At all points the Federals were victorious. ¶ In Guadalajara, a plot to dynamite President Obregon's train was discovered. Two officers accused of being the ringleaders were killed while trying to escape...
...just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...
George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity Emeritus, will give a reading from the poetry of George Herbert on Saturday, April 26, at 3 o'clock in the vestry of the Arlington Street Church...
...renew your attention to an interesting historical fact which deserves consideration by the American people? During the period since the Civil War the administration of President Johnson was marked by impeachment proceedings against the President himself; the administration of President Grant was marred by grave scandals reaching into the Cabinet itself; the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur were filled with such serious patronage scandals that civil service reform was forced through by an indignant country; the administration of President McKinley saw the graft and rottenness of the War Department and other bureaus during and following...