Word: civility
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Nearly all of us can remember with what savage pride we read of the Pyrrhic victory of the British troops at Bunker Hill, or of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Nor have the wounds occasioned by the Civil War been entirely healed; rash argument and unreasoning dissension still have their way in many an oral encounter...
After serving as Civil Service Commissioner and Police Commissioner of New York City, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of New York, he was in 1900 elected Vice-President. When McKinley died he became President, and on November 4, 1904, he was returned to that office by the largest vote any candidate for President had received. At this expiration of his term of office, March 4, 1909, he ended his career as public office-holder and went to Africa on a hunting expedition...
...comparing these figures with similar figures of Civil War records, it appears that the percent killed of all who engaged in active service was far greater at that time. In the Civil War, 1,342 University men served in the Union armies, and 132, or 9.8 percent, were killed, or died of wounds or disease in service. Mr. H. N. Blake '58 reports that of 304 University men in the Confederate ranks, 70, or 23.2 percent were killed. The high percent of mortality in the last case was due to the fact that Confederate soldiers had to serve...
Resolved: Whereas a very great number of members of the University have entered the service of their country during the war and are now, in most cases, about to return to civil life, the Board of Overseers urges that they return to the University and complete their studies...
...sterling character, the voters of this state followed the President's call by sending to the United States Senate a man whom the President endorsed. David I. Walsh is the first Democrat to be elected by Massachusetts to this great law-making body since the Civil...