Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Craig prize play for this season. "The Year of the Tiger," by K. L. Andrews 2G will be produced for the first time on any stage at the Castle Square Theatre tonight at 8.10. "The Year of the Tiger" involves the experiences of an American girl in Japan and is based on the Japanese superstition according to which every eighth year is fraught with mystery and evil...
Obedience is not instinctive, as any father of a family can testify. There are, to be sure, American families in which the habit of obedience has been enforced for several generations and discipline has been one of the gifts of inheritance. But the number of such families has been rapidly decreasing under modern social influences. The soldier must be taught obedience. That is the chief, though not the only, object of military training. The hardest problem this nation confronts on the threshold of war is not the recruiting of soldiers, but their training. It is useless to wail over neglected...
There is no doubt that if Porto Rico could view the status of Cuba, the bond between this precious Antille and this colossus would be one of the deepest affection. Although these wishes are not realized, gentlemen, let me assure you and the American people of our loyalty to the United States. The original charter of Porto Rico was granted by Spain because our loyalty had been tested, and it remained unbroken through the many vicissitudes that she had to suffer. We have seen our coasts bombarded and invaded by all her powerful past enemies, England, Holland, France...
...four of a series by Elihu Root, edited by Robert Bacon '80 and James Brown Scott '90. The first of these, "Papers and Addresses by Elihu Root," includes state papers written in performance of his duties as Secretary of War, his instructions as Secretary of State to the American delegates to the Second Hague Peace Conference, and certain of his more important diplomatic notes. The second, "Addresses on International Subjects," deals with various question which have in recent years concerned the American public. They include the treaties with Japan, Panama and Russia...
...19th Century, and Claimants to Constantinople," by Professor C. D. Hazen of Columbia, W. R. Thayer '81, member of the Board of Overseers, Professor R. H. Lord '06, and Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, is a group of essays written at the request of the program committee of the American Historical Association, and they were presented at the annual meeting of the Association in the closing days...