Word: civility
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...world; because he gave the University two great gifts, one the Soldiers Field, on which he hoped that manly sports of many kinds would be generously cultivated through long generations of Harvard youth, and on which he erected a monument to youthful friends of his who fell in the Civil War, and the Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship among Harvard students would be forever cultivated; because he had proved himself to be the most successful promoter of good music that Eastern Massachusetts had ever known; and because he was the intimate friend of Alexander Agassiz...
...decided but the ablest men of the country are now at work on the problem. The war taught France that education has passed from a luxury into a necessity. When early in the war, thousands of our officers were killed, we were forced to call on men from civil life and, naturally those best educated, best filled...
...renovating of Pierce Hall was brought to a close. As a result, buildings, in which a year ago some 6,000 blue jackets were being taught wireless telegraphy, have now been so thoroughly made over that they contain a most comprehensive group of modern electrical, sanitary, mechanical and civil engineering laboratories of the highest order, as well as ample accommodations for all the allied fields of study given at the Engineering School...
...donor of these scholarships, Samuel Abbott Green, graduated from the here in 1854. He served with distinction a surgeon in the Civil War, and was for a time mayor of Boston...
...know exactly what our faith was. Should we load them with gifts? Apparently not, for Mr. Flinn advocates a "normal war service gratuity", a very pretty term, indeed; but is it much different from the "common or garden variety" pension? We are not proclaiming our treatment of the Civil War and Spanish War veterans from the housetops; but they re ceived practically the same thing as a "national war service gratuity...