Word: annexations
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Many felt, as did the fiery William Jennings Bryan, that to annex foreign territory in the Far East would be a profitless burden and pose the threat of cheap labor to already disconted American workers. But in1897, Germany took over kiaochow and Theodore Roosevelt began to push the strategy finally adopted-- Philippine annexation-- to protect U.S. interests in the area...
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SANDERS THEATER. U.S.S.R. Baroque Ensemble. Tickets: Free from Peabody-Mason Music Foundation, Box 153, Back Bay Annex, Boston 02117. Wednesday, October...
...college still had no name. Since its inception it had officially been called "The Society for the Intercollegiate Instruction of Women." Agassiz proposed to name it for Ann Radcliffe, who, in 1643, donated 100 pounds of sterling for a Harvard scholarship. In 1894, the Annex was incorporated as "Radcliffe College...
...President Eliot and the Fellows of Harvard College realized they would have to contend with the Annex. After painstaking negotiations. Agassiz finally persuaded Harvard to take some responsibility for the girls at "X College:" Harvard's President agreed to countersign the women's diplomas; Harvard assumed responsibility for approving Faculty appointments; and, the President and the Fellows were to be the "visitors of X College...