Word: british
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...formerly an annual affair, but has not been played since 1902. The team will consist of six men, chosen from the four members of the league on the basis of the work in the intercollegiate tournament. The American end of the match will be in New York, the British end in London. I. B. Rice, the well known chess expert and donator of the trophy, will finance the match, while W. Napier has consented to act as referee. A challenge, which will be sent in a few days, is now in charge of L. P. Wolff of Columbia...
...Mediterranean, he continued, has always been the field of piracy, but the United States was not affected until by the Revolution it lost the protection of the British navy. Treaties and tribute proved vain, and in 1800 we commissioned our first frigate to fight the corsairs, and not long afterwards three more, in cluding the "Philadelphia." Enticed by a small boat of the enemy, the "Philadelphia" ran on a reef. Captain Bainbridge dismantled it, as harbor craft swarming with armed men compelled surrender...
...exhibition, and have been changed every week or fortnight. The subjects represented by these plates have been--Armor from the Spitzer Collection; the Mosque of Tamerlane; the Castle of Neuschwan-stein, in Bavaria; the Sistine Chapel, in Rome; the Louvre, in Paris; Spanish Tapestries; Japanese Costume; prints from the British Museum; statues of gods and athletes, exhibited at the time of the football game; and illustrations of the human figure, ancient, mediaevel, and modern. At Christmas time, the Fogg Museum lent us a collection of photographs appropriate to the season. W. C. LANE, Chairman Library Committee...
Experience and reason prove conclusively that municipal ownership would be beneficial. During the past 15 years, while we have been experiencing the futility of regulation, 51 British and 30 German cities have undertaken municipal ownership of street railways. In the great majority of cases the service has been made more efficient and more convenient. Municipal ownership is not new to New York, for the city has already successfully undertaken ownership of the subway roads...
...Bishop Gailor of Tennessee spoke on the subject "Is Christianity the Only Absolute Religion," and Mr. Robert E. Speer discussed the question "Are non-Christian Religions Adequate to Meet the Needs of Men?" The meeting of greatest general interest was that of Friday evening, when the speakers were the British Ambassador, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Hon. John W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State, Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and Hon. J. A. Macdonald, editor of the Toronto Globe...