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After an illness of two weeks, Professor Josiah Royce, Alford Professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity, died from arterio sclerosis, at his home in Cambridge on September 14. The funeral was held in Appleton Chapel last Saturday, Professor James Hardy Ropes of the Divinity School officiating...
...Widener Library has lately received from Mr. George Rapall Noyes '84, of Norwich, Conn., four manuscript volumes containing the letters of his uncle, John B. Noyes, of the Class of 1858. Noyes enlisted as a private early in the Civil War, became a captain of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteers, and after passing through a long and active service, including Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, was brevetted Colonel U. S. Volunteers. His letters were written to various members of his family, and form an unbroken series from his first garrison duty...
...Recent Biographies" contains three reviews of books about Harvard men. Mr. W. C. Ford, M.A. '07, discusses the autobiography of Charles Francis Adams. "Union Portraits," a description of some of the Northern leaders in the Civil War, by Gamaliel Bradford '86, is reviewed by Mr. W. R. Thayer '81. Dean Castle treats "Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career," by C. G. Washburn...
...Civil War Showed Need of Trained...
...need to look far a-field for historical evidence of the evils resulting from a lack of trained officers when war breaks out, but can refer to our own Civil War for the most glaring instance of that lack of proper preparation. When the Civil War broke out, it became necessary to train a large body of men; and on account of the absolute lack of officers, it was necessary to train the men and the officers at the same time,-hence the great delay in producing an army fit for offensive work, the time for decisive action being delayed...