Word: brazilian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...river system, with the problem of building up water transportation facilities. This policy has involved such steps as the expenditure of liberal subsidies, the enforcement of protective legislation with reference to coast-wise traffic, and the general encouragement of national shipping. Until the beginning of the present war, the Brazilian merchant marine did not figure conspicuously in foreign trade. But with the disordered shipping conditions that arose after August 1, 1914, and particularly as a result of the disruption of the pooling agreement between various English and German lines, the Brazilian merchant marine, especially the government line (Lloyds-Brazileiro), suddenly...
...Morgan will also speak in Emerson J tomorrow at 12 o'clock. The subject of his talk will be "Brazilian Foreign Relations," and particular reference will be given to the relations between Brazil and the United States, Germany and France...
...undergraduate members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will celebrate their victory over the Yale chapter by attending "A Brazilian Honeymoon," followed by a supper at the Lombardy Inn tomorrow night. H. A. Larrabee '16 will be toastmaster, W. M. Horton '17, the society's poet, will read a poem, and J. A. Emery '17, K. B. Murdock '16, W. Silx '17 and R. Cutler '16 will speak...
...library has received from Rio de Janiero six hundred volumes of Brazilian history and literature. These books were selected by Dr. Julius Klein, Ph.D. '13, Instructor in History, who is traveling in South America, and are a gift to the library from the Hon. Edwin Vernon Morgan '90, American Ambassador to Brazil. It was Mr. Morgan's object in making this gift to encourage the study of South American affairs at Harvard, and in particular to commemorate the courses in these subjects which are given this year by his friend, Dr. Oliveira Lima...
...gained, but in general the results are as follows; from the Venzuelan collection it has acquired several hundred pamphlets and books, which gives it a very strong collection from that country; from the Bolivian library it has gained material of a similar nature on Bolivia; and from the Brazilian collection it has secured a number of works on Indian linguistics, a subject in which it was already strong. In all instances the Library has secured a great number of books and pamphlets printed in the southern countries themselves which would be impossible to obtain except by such a mission...