Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cleveland suddenly sends a message to Congress asking for a commission upon whose report he is to say to England: "Back down or fight." Mr. Olney adds a letter to Lord Salisbury, saying that England's presence on this continent is a menace and an offence. Congress and a large part of our newspapers and people thereupon go fighting-drunk; and Mr. Roosevelt writes you a letter to call any of us who may have presumed to beg our congressmen to slow-up if they can, "betrayers" of our native land. We are evidently guilty of lese-majeste...
...agreement with the President of Harvard College, arrangements have been made by which women may take the Harvard admission examinations at other places than Cambridge, and the present year showed more demand for such opportunities. Examinations were taken at Albany, Cleveland, Concord, N. H., Exeter, Groton, MInneapolis, Portland, Mr., and Washington...
...Secretary Bayard wrote then "If indeed it appear there is no fixed limit to the British boundary claim, our good disposition to aid in a settlement might not only be defeated, but be obliged to give place to a feeling of grave concern." I think this shows President Cleveland's present action is not hasty, and I think the standing and recognized judgment of his counsellors is such as to preclude the possibility of its being fairly termed ill-advised...
Poet, Theodore H. Simmons of Cleveland...
Some very prominent men have been appointed on the Honorary Committee from the United States. Among those who have promised to serve are President Cleveland, who will act as chairman; Joseph H. Choate, Provost C. C. Harrison of the University of Pennsylvania, Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews; S. G. B. Laste, editor of the Ephemeris; and the following college presidents: Eliot, Dwight, Patton, Gilman...