Word: civility
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...next Monday Roger N. Baldwin, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union will speak on "The Miners' Struggle in West Virginia...
...When civil government was introduced, many prominent Americans interested themselves in the Islands. Among the earliest were Dr. Schurman of Cornell, and Chief-Justice Taft, who become the first governor-general. Among the most recent have been W. Cameron Forbes and Major-General Wood, both governors-general. Under the leadership of these men the Islands have prospered, initial steps have been made in sanitation, in manufacturing, shipping, and in foreign trade, and the agricultural and mineral resources of the country have been put to profitable use. These men, too, are as well acquainted with conditions in the Islands...
...military expenditures was referred to; and the flexibility and adaptability of the tariff to changing conditions, through provision for administrative adjustment. The Bonus Bill, and certain widely-attacked schedules of the Tariff Act, are not mentioned. Times are becoming normal; our Reconstruction period is nothing like that after the Civil War, with embittered party conflict, and an impeachment of a President. On the whole, Mr. Harding thinks the work of Congress good...
...time doctor who was everything from a horse-doctor to a surgeon or what-not; the general practitioner now within almost one generation, is becoming divided into many special fields. We have a specialist for this and a specialist for that; a corporation lawyer, a criminal lawyer, and the civil and electrical engineer, etc. Knowledge and education is forced to become in itself less broad. The work of the brain is becoming divided, just as the work of the hand has become divided...
This afternoon, for the first time since the Civil War eleven men from Florida will appear in the field against eleven Harvard men. On this occasion the Southerners are the invaders and their attack, however spirited, is looked for with eager interest...