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Under these circumstances, it was but proper that the agents of this country should offer an asylum to the refugees of the presidential party. However, this act greatly incensed the congressional party. These events lead up to the assault at Valparaiso upon the sailors from the Baltimore. It was some time before Chile did anything. Finally she did offer a slight apology...
...will leave only the two blocks between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Sixteenth Streets of the plateau between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Park undisposed of. The remainder will be taken up by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which has the Leake and Watt's Orphan Asylum tract, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth Streets, and by St. Luke's Hospital, which last week purchased the block between One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fourteenth Streets. The property consists of a great ledge which will afford excellent foundations for the most massive...
...Little Old French Woman," is an admirable sketch of a bizarre old creature who on being raised to comparative affluence by a legacy of fifty thousand francs, founds an asylum for straw cats. The touches of character sketching are well laid on, although the idea of the thing as a whole is suggestive of T. B. Aldrich's translation from the French of "The Story...
Some of the men in Philosophy 14 visited the Asylum for the Blind, under Mr. Peabody, Tuesday afternoon...
...spirit sooner or later to be adopted by all true Americans. The almost universally accepted modifications of the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" are fully upheld in the assertion that our country is not to be thought of as merely an asylum for the pporessed. The duty of selfpreservation is the central idea of the article...