Word: british
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...universities. In addition, the so-called Yale and Cornell strokes are by no means so inferior or different from the English as seems to be supposed; at recent Henley regattas and on other occasions Yale and Cornell crews have rowed very close to the most thoroughly trained and experienced British crews, and then under the disadvantages of a foreign climate...
...been that of a busy and successful lawyer adhering closely to the practice of his profession and rising by steady steps to a foremost place at the bar. He recently represented the Venezuelan government before the commission appointed by President Cleveland to determine the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, and it is largely owing to his clear insight and unceasing industry that the boundary dispute has been so satisfactorily settled...
Professor Moore has lately received for the Fogg Art Museum an invoice of photographs from London representing all the antiquities of the British Museum. These photographs comprise Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian, and Graeco-Roman works of art in the departments of sculpture, painting and pottery. By this acquisition, the number of photographs in the collection is increased to nearly 20,000. For the practical purposes of the student, these photographs are as useful as the objects themselves in the British Museum...
...strictures of Lecky on the later extensions of the British franchise justifiable...
...British Freewomen; their Historical Privilege. By Scharlotte C. Stopes...