Word: britain
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...date of the annual tournament of the Yale interscholastic tennis association has been changed from May 5 to May 12. The following schools will be represented: Hillhouse High School and Hopkins Grammar School, from New Haven; Public High School from Hartford; New Britain High and Hillside High Schools from New Britain, and Black Hall School...
...practical scheme because (1) Gt. Britain would not raise serious objections (2) the loyalty of the Canadians would not be affected, as the Union would not discriminate against Gt. Britain (3) The impending reduction of U. S. rates will remove any serious difficulty in agreeing on a common tariff...
...Domitian was justified in recalling Agricola from Britain...
...change Home Rule is not advisable. (a) It would weaken the Empire, (1) Causing division between Great Britain and Ireland. (2) Causing division between Ulster and the rest of Ireland. (b) The present Irish leaders are not fit men to lead a nation. (c) The present leaders would not execute the Land Laws, thus undoing the good already accomplished. Contemporary, LXI, 314-331 (March 1892), LXII, 258-262 (August 1892). Nineteenth Century XXXI, 877-884 (June 1892); Edinburgh vol. 163, 562-590 (April...
...marine engineering. The leading powers of Europe have long had such schools. France has one at Paris called the Government School of Naval Architecture; Italy has one at Genoa, the German Government has two schools of naval architecture, one in Berlin and another in Kiel. Neither is Great Britain wanting in this respect, having a large school of naval architecture in Greenwich, besides a course in naval architecture at Glasgow University, Scotland. The school of naval architecture is a part of Sibley College, Cornell University. The college is under the direction of Dr. Robert H. Thurston. The course occupies...