Word: canal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...secured degrees from several English universities, and has worked for a time as a journalist. His chief interest, however, has been centered on social and industrial questions, he having worked for a time with the navvies on railway construction and during the building of the Manchester Ship Canal. More recently he has been engaged as one of the English representatives for the American Institute of Social Service. He delivered the Noble Lectures in 1904, his subject being "The Attitude of Jesus Christ Toward Foreign Races and Religions...
...clock. At this meeting there will be a lecture on "Methods and Results of Sanitation on the Isthmus of Panama." It will be given by Mr. J. T. B. Bowles, who for some time has been the Physiologist in charge of Water Supplies and Filtration Plants for the Isthmian Canal Commission. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon and will be open to the public...
...Harvard Engineering Society. Lecture (illustrated) on "Methods and Results of Sanitation on the Isthmus of Panama," by Mr. James T. B. Bowels of the Isthmian Canal Commission, in Pierce...
...which has already demonstrated its worth and beneficence. Following this came the great railroad legislation of 1906, and then the laws for the conservation of the nation's resources, protecting the country against the timber thieves and the mineral operators. But greater than any of these was the canal legislation, the realization of an aspiration of the American people hundreds of years old. Theodore Roosevelt was the man who got these measures through, and they stand today, a splendid monument to his work in national affairs...
...clock. The Harvard Freshmen will meet the Princeton freshmen in New Lecture Hall and the Yale freshmen in New Haven. The Yale freshmen will meet the Princeton freshmen at Princeton. The subject for all three debates will be, "Resolved, That the United States should fortify the Panama Canal (legal right being conceded)." The Freshmen will argue the negative in the debate with Princeton and the affirmative in the debate with Yale. The university returning two winning teams will be announced the winner. The debate in New Lecture Hall will be open to the public...