Word: civility
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Hereafter the degrees of civil engineering and mechanical engineering will not be given at Stanford, but instead the degree of engineer, with special mention of the department, as "engineer in mechanical engineering," will be given...
Negotiations are pending between the Civil Service Reform Club and the New Haravard Union for a joint debate on some subject connected with the civil service, to take place about the first of April...
...Hale first gave numerous examples of the respective powers of the ecclesiastic and civil courts in deciding upon the guilt of accused members of religious bodies. He said that civil authority had enacted special commandments in relation to the holding of property for the support of some divine creed and that in all cases where appeal was made to the civil court, the civil court never held the previous decisions of the ecclesiastical court to be valid, as these bodies had organized themselves, and whatever power they exercised came only from themselves and could have no legal force...
...cases where the civil courts decide that a clergyman is not guilty of some offence charged by his people, the ecclesiastical court is in no way bound to accept this decision but may turn the accused out, if they consider him guilty. But the civil court insists that in all trials before ecclesiastical bodies the accused shall receive all the rights which he is allowed before a civil court...
...constitution and minutes of the last meeting were read, after which committees were named to canvass the college and also the faculty, for members. Three men were then appointed to organize the nucleus of a library to be devoted entirely to articles on Civil Service Reform. Members were also chosen who should be empowered to invite prominent men to address the club...