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This settlement of the grievance between Russia and Great Britain will slacken for a time the tension along the long Asia frontier, reaching from Mesopotamia to Thibet, Burmah and the Malay States. A bugaboo in the shape of a Russo-Japanese alliance fostered by acquiescent China, and drilled by distant Germany, may have enough reality to alarm the farsighted. In the meantime the British naval base at Singapore is being built; the Russo-Japanese danger can be faced when it arises...
...Mott, and Mr. Carter will sail next Thursday for India to resume his duties there. The work in India, where he has spent eight years, is of a varied nature, having to do with universities, cities, and railroads not only in India proper, but in Ceylon and Burmah as well...
...number of species determined by Dr. Franz Fieber. Another gift of great scientific value has been received from Dr. G. W. Peckham and Mrs. Elizabeth G. Peckham; it consists of a considerable number of attidae, or jumping spiders. Mr. Thomas Barbour has presented the Museum with collections from India, Burmah, the Dutch East Indies, and New Guinea, which have enriched the study series of specimens in every department. Among the more notable of these, is a series of skins of birds of paradise, and of a number of magnificent specimens of the great bird-winged butterflies...
...traveled about 16,000 miles, organizing new associations and developing existing ones. In the summer of 1903 he was advanced to the post of general secretary of the Indian National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations, and has since had direction of the whole association enterprise in India, Burmah and Ceylon. Much of his time is still spent in traveling, his mileage last year being nearly 32,000 miles. He has been instrumental in organizing many new organizations and in securing new buildings. Under his administration a large force of native workers has been set at work, and there...
This year, as heretofore, the Christian Association will raise, by subscription, the salary of E. C. Carter '00, who was the first graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, in 1900-1902, and who is now the national secretary of the Young Men's Christian Associations in India, Burmah, and Ceylon, where he has accomplished much in various different ways...