Word: civility
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...After God had carried us safe to New England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust...
...schools of Bradford and at Phillips Andover Academy and entered Dartmouth in 1856, but went abroad before his course was finished. On his return he took up the study of law and entered the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1860. He served with distinction in the Civil War, being attached to the Army of the Potomac for two years...
...FULLERTON.HARVARD ENGINEERING SOCIETY. - There will be a meeting of the Civil Engineering Section, the last meeting of the year, this evening at 7.30 at 38 Linnaean street...
Yale's third representative was F. E. Richardson, who contested the arguments usually advanced in favor of the six year term. He maintained that a capable man and an incapable man should not have the same length of services and that civil service reform tends to lessen the President's power of putting into office men who will support him for re-election. He showed that the depression in business usually advanced as an argument against frequent elections, was greatly exaggerated and that business is more stable in America during these periods than in England during its elections...
This war will no doubt be followed by a great industrial development. Within our own lives Japan will manufacture for the world at large. Her people have strong taste for engineering and the principal education received by her young men abroad has been either military or civil engineering...