Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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Thursday, March 17.--Lecture by Mr. W. B. Parsons, member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, on "Civil Engineering...
...Eliott H. Goodwin '95. One of these, Government 17b, will be devoted to The Government of American Cities, and the other, Government 24, will deal with the subject of Municipal Reform, Dr. Goodwin has been for ten years or more the chief executive officer of the National Civil Service Reform League. Attention may also be called to a new half-course, Economics 24, on Municipal Ownership and Control to be given by Dr. A. N. Holcombe...
There has been a great deal of discussion recently among graduates and undergraduates as to whether it would be appropriate to place tablets in Memorial Hall commemorative of Harvard men who fell during the Civil War in the Confederate service...
...interesting controversy has been carried on for the past month in the columns of the Bulletin, in regard to the suitability of having the names of Harvard men who died in the service of the Confederacy during the Civil War carved on the tablets in Memorial Hall. The suggestion was made by the Bulletin itself in an editorial which mentioned a southern graduate as speaker for Memorial Day, and the Discussion has been kept up by letters from several graduates...
...consider it inappropriate for the University to put side by side the names of men who for part of their lives were enemies. To them it doubtless seems like asking Democrats and Republicans to join in a post-election testimonial to the victors of one party. For the Civil War was a political campaign of armed men, and it was fought by patriots on both sides...