Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...President Cleveland, as a young man in Civil War days, paid a substitute $300 to serve in the Union Army for him, a practice which was then legal...
...planned to take out some 1,500 civil officials, clergymen and others who had actively aided MacArthur's forces, to save them from Communist vengeance. In the city hall, Lee Keun Tae, wispy chief of the administration section, already had his overcoat on. Where were his men? "All gone," Lee said. He himself was planning to go all the way to Seoul, taking his wife and seven children. How would they go? "Probably walk," said Lee. A man in a black overcoat with a mink collar joined the conversation. But another man came in, whispered "The car is ready...
...idea of polities deciding a college appointment seemed so wrong to most people that a drive began to free the University of this burden; after 1866 the governor, the lieutenant-governor, and other state officials stopped serving as ex-office Overseers. From that post-Civil War period on, the Overseers have been elected by the alumni--five each year for six year terms...
...franchise has broadened so that any degree holder now may vote in the spring election while in 1866 it was limited to men with an A.B., A.M., or an honorary degree. The composition of the Board has also broadened geographically; after the Civil War only Massachusetts men could serve, while today two-thirds of the Overseers come from outside the state. Beyond the East, there are six from tile Mid-west and two from California...
Robert L. Gold, secretary-treasurer of the 1950 Civil Liberties Appeal and teaching fellow in Government, has arranged the informal meeting partly at the suggestion of Arthur M. Schlosinger, Higginson Professor of History...