Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...aspect of antiquity and decay that the buildings presented was not all pleasing. Inside the buildings, however, it was a different thing. The coziness of the college balls at Oxford and Cambridge was a thing that could not be found in either the Scotch universities or these of America. A dinner at the high at any of the large colleges of Oxford or Cambridge was an experience not soon to be forgotten. At the beginning of the meal the Latin grace is said by the senior officer at the high table. in some instances it is read in alternate vetses...
...Archaeological Institute of-America has $76,000 pledged for the work at Delphi...
...governments. Then follow short sketches of the ancient and mediaeval confederations and more detailed accounts of the four principal federations of today, the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Canada. The chapter on the Latin-American confederations, giving brief notices of the leagues of this century in Central and South America, including the Brazilian Republic, concludes the history. Although the text takes up hardly seventy-five pages, it is so fully annotated with references and bibliographies that it is an index for a deep study of the subject...
...gradual recognition of a legal right to privacy distinct from the right to property, and rapidly becoming of great importance in the age of newspaper intrusion and instantaneous photography. They point out that a right to privacy is recognized by statute in France, and ought to be in America, so that a sure remedy could be secured in case of the violation of a man's privacy beyond the limit to which public duties or aspirations may give the people a right to learn his past record. "The Police Power and Interstate Commerce" is ably discussed by Mr. William...
...matched contest is talked of between Sherrill of Yale, Lee of Harvard and Cary of Princeton, the distance to be run being 50, 100, 150 and 220 yards, for the intercollegiate championship of America...