Word: california
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...early collegiate training at Dashisha College, the largest Christian college in Japn. After graduating there in 1881, he entered the Divinity School of the same institution and in 1884 received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. Coming to America, he spent three years at the Pacific Theological seminary in California. After his graduation there in 1887 he spent three years in private study and last fall came to Harvard...
...Pioneer Mining in California," Mr. E. G. Waite protests against the flippant style and eccentric rhetoric of those writers who have made the early California miner a terror, or "who, seizing upon a sporadic case of extreme oddity, some drunken, brawling wretch, have given a caricature to the world as the typical miner." Mr. Waite draws a clean-cut picture of the early mining years and the early miner which is delightfully interesting...
...debate for the affirmative sought to show that the case at New Orleans was one where ordinary legal measures had proved inadequate; that the people were confronted with an appaling condition which demanded vigorous and unusual measures; and that lynch law under somewhat parallel conditions had proved beneficial in California. The leaders for the negative disputed all these points. They held that California afforded no parallel for the New Orleans affair; that such a society as the Mafia could be-suppressed by legal means; and that every man accused of murder is entitled to a fair trial...
Best general references: N. Y. World March 15; London Times, March 18; Royce, California, 417-422, 437-465; Hittell, San Francisco, 172-178, 245-262; To-Day, April...
...extreme cases it is necessary to secure justice by extraordinary means. E. g. Vehmgericht; American Revolution; California Vigilance Committees of 1851 and 1856: Royce...