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During the Civil War interest in the sport declined, but in 1864 the races with Yale were resumed. In 1870 Harvard had scored seven victories out of nine contests. A four-oared race was held against Oxford on the Themes in 1869, in which the University acquitted itself very creditably, losing by only six seconds...
Professor George F. Swain of the Engineering Department was elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers at its annual meeting held in New York yesterday. Professor Swain is the 43rd president of the organization, which is one of the oldest in the country, and which has a membership of about...
Charles Carroll Soule '62, president of the Boston Book Company, and one of the most prominent publishers of Boston, died at his home this morning. Mr. Soule was a student at the Boston Latin School and later entered Harvard, graduating with the class of '62. During the Civil War he was a captain in the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. Mr. Soule was the author of many books mainly on library subjects...
President Eliot was re-elected president of the National Civil Service Reform League at the league's meeting in Milwaukee on Saturday. Among other officers elected were R. W. Belcher '06, secretary, and G. T. Keyes '89, assistant secretary. The league again urged the passage of the pending bill for the improvement of the foreign service, and went on record as opposed to all preferences of individuals or of special classes in making government appointments. It also expressed confidence in President-elect Wilson to support the merit principle...
...other reasons, the army should remain in the Islands for many years to come, and that while the Moros were a race with many remarkable characteristics, they were in no way suited for self government, being accustomed to and respecting only a power which combined the civil and military control in the same hands...