Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Thursday. The class will entertain at luncheon at Phillips Brooks House the members of all the preceding and the three following classes and the customary list of University, civil, military, naval and other guests...
...take another period of our national life--that which came down to the Civil War. You will find volumes--libraries of dissension touching its causes and development. The cannon shot at Sumter blew away all but the idealism. It was after that high exhibition of idealism in our Civil War that those who saw in it only a war of rebellion saw also an opportunity for the exploitation of the commercial advantages offered by the succeeding conditions. Small wonder that other nations became established in their conviction that we were a commercial and soulless people worshipping the dollar and given...
Speaking at Harvard's commemoration in 1886 of William and Mary's prostration after the Civil War, Senator George F. Hoar said: "The stout-hearted old President still rings the morning bell and keeps the charter alive, and I want to salute him today from Harvard; and I should value it more than any public honor or private good fortune that could come to me if I might live to see that old, historic college of Virginia endowed anew with liberal aid of the sons of Harvard...
...Previous to the Civil War all appropriations were passed upon first by a single committee for that purpose. Now we have a Committee on Agriculture, reporting appropriations for the Department of Agriculture; a Committee on Military Affairs, reporting appropriations for the War Department; a Committee on Naval Affairs, reporting appropriations for the Navy Department; a Committee on Indian Affairs, reporting appropriations for the Indian Service; a Committee on Foreign Relations, reporting appropriations for our Foreign Service; a Committee on Post Offices reporting appropriations for our Postal Service; a Committee on Rivers and Harbors, reporting appropriations for the improvement...
Francis Davis Millet, born in 1846, served in the Civil War as a drummer boy, enlisting in 1861 at the age of 15. He entered College in 1865, and at the end of his course spend several years studying at Antwerp. He was for some time a newspaper correspondent for the Boston Advertise, and during the Russo-Turkish War and the Spanish War reported for the London Daily News and the New York Herald. In the field of art he ranked among the most prominent of American mural decorators and medal designers...