Word: civility
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...Homer Cummings, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will give an address under the auspices of the Woodrow Wilson Club of the University. His subject will be "Popular Reactions in the Struggle for Peace". Professor W. E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at the University, will preside and introduce the speaker. The meeting will be open to all members of the Woodrow Wilson Club, and of the Union...
...headed by William Coleman and Alexander Hamilton, founded the "New York Evening Post", which today celebrates its 120th anniversary. "Ever since that date", writes President Emeritus Eliot, "the paper has stood firmly for the best public causes in this country, such as Free Soil, the War for the Union, civil service reform, sound public and private finance, and liberal education". A prominent citizen of New York used to declare that he would continue to read the "Post", no matter how seriously he differed with its views, merely because it was founded by Hamilton. This may be a sweeping statement...
...Watson of Indiana. No. of course not in fact, during the Civil War they had other reasons...
With peace college and town grew together. In 1846 bells and cannon proclaimed the granting of the city charter. Checked only by the Civil War with its toll of four hundred dead, prosperity advanced steadily to the present day Cambridge of the locked Charles, the subway, and the Waldorf...
...Swift and His Times", conducted by Professor Hurlbut and one on "American Government and Politics," to be conducted jointly by Professor Munro. This course, sure to be among the most valuable in the curriculum, will include a survey of American history with special emphasis on the period since the Civil War and an investigation of the principles and practice of constitutional government. Special attention will be devoted to municipal problems and the activities and influence of political parties...