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...first and second cups offered by the Speaker's Club for the best original ten-minute speeches on any subject whatever, the first cup was awarded to St. J. Perret '10, who delivered "A Eulogy over the Tomb of Father Turgis, a Chaplain of the Southern Army in the Civil War, on the Occasion of a Reunion of Confederate Veterans." B. S. Van Rensselaer '10 was awarded the second cup for a speech on "Social Life at Harvard." The judges were E. Bernbaum '02, F. W. C. Hersey '99, and A. H. Lyber...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Financial History of Texas to the Civil War." Mr. E. T. Miller. University...
More than forty years of domestic peace have healed the wounds left by the Civil War. At the close of the struggle, many who had left Harvard for the front returned to complete their course. Others there were who did not return, but died on the battlefield,--soldiers of the North and soldiers of the South. Memorial Hall was built as a tribute to the gallantry of those who fell fighting for the Union. Probably a greater number left Harvard to join Confederate ranks than fought in the war with Spain. Would it not be a fitting token...
...entered the Law School, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1874. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced for several years in Baltimore. He entered politics early in his career, and became prominent in many reform movements. He was made chairman of the council of the national Civil Service Reform League, president of the National Civic Federation. In 1905 he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt, a position which he held for a year and a half, when he was made Attorney-General. He remained in this position until the present administration...
...began by giving a short history of engineering. He said that since early times engineering has been in use to supply men with water, food, and habitation. The Egyptians and Babylonians constructed great works, but in many instances wasted their efforts. During the Middle Ages with the decadence of civilization, engineering declined, only to take on new life in the sixteenth century. The need of the civil engineer became greater with construction of roads, bridges, docks, and harbors. The many inventions of the early nineteenth century gave added impulse to the profession, and engineers began to be differentiated. There arose...