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Soon after his graduation from College in 1859 Mr. Gray entered the army and served throughout the Civil War. After the War he became professor in the Law School and received the degree of LL.D. from both Yale and Harvard. He was long prominent in law circles in Boston, having been for many years a member of the present firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins...
President Schurman urges in the first place that the Government offer such commissions in the regular army to the best trained men in the military departments of our colleges and universities, that after a year, they may return to civil life, retaining their commissions as officers of the reserve. Next, he suggests that such institutions as already have military training go a step further and establish regular military departments, in which those desiring to fit themselves for the military profession might study the theoretical branches underlying that profession, as is now done at West Point, while at the same time...
Proper embassies in foreign cities are also important. The unsatisfactory quarters of most American ambassadors compare very unfavorably with the magnificent and stately dwellings of those of the other nations of the world. If the Department of State would spend more money on its foreign service and less on Civil War pensions all this would be eliminated...
...Baldwin Engineering Library, which has been deposited with Technology by the Woburn Public Library. This collection of books will remain the property of the Woburn Library but in their desire to give them wider value the Woburn authorities have placed them as a supplement to a library of civil engineering already one of the foremost in the world. The collection contains volumes originally belonging to Loammi Baldwin of Woburn, "the father of civil engineering in America...
President Eliot has been chosen speaker for the Memorial Day exercises to be held in Sanders Theatre on May 30. Last year the address was delivered by Charles Fessenden Morse '58, lieutenant-colonel in the Civil War, and this year's address, in view of President Eliot's position as an authority on international peace, should be interesting in comparison. The members of the Charles Beck Post, G. A. R., will be invited as usual and will be guests of honor at a luncheon given by the Memorial Society. The usual march and exercises will take place...