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...case, and they're dead serious. It's like a huge bill finally coming due." Because of treaties and agreements between their tribes and the Federal Government, Native Americans living on reservations along the Colorado River have, in many instances, claims on water that date back to the mid-1800s. Thanks to the first-in-time concept, they are often the senior owners of river rights, and they have begun making their case vigorously in courtrooms. Combined, the Native American claims amount to a sizable chunk of the Colorado's annual flow. While few observers expect all these claims...
Letter-writing used to be an art form. From Roman times to the late 1800s (when that upstart Bell ruined every-thing) every literate person kept up some sort of correspondence. St. Catherine of Siena wrote to the pope, telling him not to be such a wimp. Gibbon wrote to the poet Pope telling him his poems didn't scan. Columbus wrote to every member of the royalty in Europe, begging for money...
...changes are very similar in magnitude to those at the end of the 1800s, and like the Progressive Period around the turn of the century, the U.S. is ready for a period of intense reform of its political institutions," Putnam says...
...mistake to present the Holden groups as any sort of organic whole. Like so many antiquarian Harvard organizations, the Glee Club is all-male. Established in the early 1800s, they still view themselves as keepers of the Crimson flame, singing the traditional Harvard Fight songs at concerts, games and alumni functions. Established half a century later, the all-female RCS "carries on the Radcliffe songs," says RCS President Melissa Haber '91. The newer Collegium, performing mostly early Renaissance music, claims the only co-ed spot in the Holden group...
When you demanded "consistency" from Harvard, the first thing that came to my mind was a similar situation that I read about in an American history class. In the mid-1800s, certain members of Congress were arguing in favor of Black male suffrage on the grounds that all men are endowed with the same rights...