Word: armament
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cruiser "Harvard" has come to port at Newport News, Va., in order to receive her full armament, the gifts of the undergraduates can now be sent to her. The chest containing the stand of colors was shipped on Saturday, and the loving cup, which will be on exhibition in the show window of N. G. Wood and Sons in Boston for a few hours today, will be sent immediately. Lack of time prevents its being placed on exhibition in Cambridge...
...fortify them we must assume a vast, expensive and unncessary armament; to leave them defenceless we will invite national dishonor and disgrace. As Carl Schurz has said, "our defensive position is today unassailable, and Hawaii would be our Achilles' heel...
...swayed by phrases. But I trust that no catch-words or nicknames will deter Harvard students who have once made up their minds adversely on the general question, from beginning the fight just at this very point, and doing what little they can towards bringing the threatened increase of armament to naught...