Word: civility
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...than the rights of property. The specific plan was to prevent slavery and to limit the right of property in man. The leading principles of the Republican party are for the rights of men; secondly the principles of the nation; then sound currency; and the protective tariff for revenue; civil service reform; and finally, in a word - progress. An honest man who differs from me and our party on Tariff Reform must judge between two questions and strike a balance governing himself accordingly. If a man votes with the Democratic party, it is possible that he may attain his wish...
...broad and business like way. The 50th Congress approached too near the starvation limit, when they let the lights go out in government buildings and let the army and navy officers go unpaid. I take it that there are a few sons of Harvard who are not loyal to civil service reform. The only contention on that point is whether this party or that has violated its pledges, and when you get two parties in this predicament you can know that the bone of contention is strong. Mr. Greenhalge then went on to express his trust that Harvard men would...
...present the courses of the Lawrence Scientific School consist of Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Geology, Biology, Electrical Engineering and the new course in Anatomy, Physiology and Physical training. The next courses which most naturally would be added are Architecture and Mechanical Engineering. The former could be established at a comparatively small cost while the latter will require a large expenditure...
...coming of trouble between the two countries is due, in part, to changes in the foreign policy of the United States. In 1890 trouble broke out between two factions in Chile, leading to civil war in which the United States, though neutral, became concerned, largely through Minister Egan. Mr. Egan's first mistake was that while showing courtesies to both parties, he plainly favored the party of Balmaceda and expected its triumph. Feeling against the congressional party was shown when they attempted to ship arms from a Californian port on the Itata. However unauthorized this act may have been...
Harvard men will read with pleasure a paper in the Atlantic Monthly by Prof. Shaler on "The Border State Men of the Civil War." Prof. Shaler is himself a Kentuckian, as all college men know, and therefore he is eminently fitted to give excellent final testimony on such a subject. What Prof. Shaler says on the considerations which finally influenced him to cast his lot for the North is particularly interesting...