Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their wives will have luncheon at Smith Hall, one of the Freshman Dormitories; Supper at the Colonial Club, Cambridge. June 23.--Members and their wives will be entertained at luncheon by the Misses Slocum, of Jamaica Plain; 7.00, twenty-fifth anniversary class dinner, Algonouin Club, Boston. June 24.--Chief Marshal's luncheon...
...States tariffs; and the problem of keeping England neutral was one of the hardest faced by the Administration. The policy of Seward, secretary of State, seemed to be to embroil the United States abroad, hoping thereby to bring about a reunion at home. Troubled by the actions of his chief minister, Lincoln was plunged into deeper difficulties by the Trent Affair, where Captain Wilks of the United States Navy boarded the British ship "Trent" and took off Mason and Slidell, Confederate commissioners to England. This inexcusable act aroused great enthusiasm in America, and Lincoln made his first bad mistake...
Lincoln's chief mistakes were in the military line. His lack of victories, in a great part of the war made his political and diplomatic situation very difficult at times. Early in the struggle he thought of a plan for reimbursing the Southern States with United States bonds if they would declare peace and give up their slaves. But the defeats of the North at this time made the bonds practically worthless, and few believed in their recuperative powers. When finally Lincoln decided upon the emancipation of slaves by declaration, he did it as a military measure, to hinder...
...chief of the remaining lectures are on the following subjects: "What Shall We Do With the Monroe Doctrine?" "The Neutralization of the Seas," "Outstanding Problems of World Organization," "The Moral Equivalent of War," and "The World State; Its Advantages and Obstacles...
...Peace" in Sanders Theatre yesterday; Sidney Edward Mezes '92, president of the University of Texas from 1908 to 1914 and recently made president of the College of the City of New York; Chester Noyes Greenough '98, professor of English at Harvard; and Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post...