Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...manner in which the address became a cherished heirloom in the Keyes family was explained to the Senate. The two addresses, in their bound form, were presented by Mr. Everett to Mrs. Hamilton Fish, in recognition of her services as president of a war relief organization during the Civil War. The volume was put up at auction in aid of war relief funds and was purchased by Carlos Peirce, an uncle of Senator Keyes. At the death of Mr. Peirce, the volume descended to Senator Keyes's mother. The valuable work is now in the possession of the Senator himself...
Candidates for the Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Sanitary Engineering should have a reading knowledge of at least one modern language...
...ready to blame inefficiency on the administration, especially the Democratic administration, and to neglect he cumbersome machinery of checks and balances under which they work, and the failure of our civil service to develop experts. The question to be asked when a reform is brought before the people is not "Does it conflict with a tradition?" but rather "Is the tradition applicable to modern methods, and will the proposed reform give us better, more efficient government?" We have allowed vague references to Washington's Farewell Address to be urged as applicable to present international relations, and such absurd arguments have...
...Tech, Engineering School News for February contains articles by several well-known men, including Henry B. Endicott on "Modern Methods of Dealing With Labor", Clarence J. West on "Paper from Bagasse", and Leuis K. Rourke on "Possibilities for Civil Engineers in South America...
...horsemanship, skill and daring. This plan, which every commanding officer is directed to immediately set in operation, has a special significance to colleges where units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are established, for polo, nationally, is undoubtedly one of the major sports, and is only limited in civil life to the expense incidental to maintaining ponies, equipment and playing fields...