Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...very inconspicuous way by the press, and have not apparently commanded wide attention, at least in this part of the country. Yet it is not more than four years since the front pages of our papers were covered with the accounts of Spanish atrocities in the concentration camps of Cuba, and public opinion insisted upon the cessation of such brutalities even at the cost of war. It is but little more than two years since press and pulpit and public were alike fervently aroused because one unfortunate individual in France had been misjudged. One man had been mistreated...
North American Review: "The Political Aspects of Cuba's Economic Distress," by Josiah Quincy...
...Experiences in Cuba with the Rough Riders," by Guy Murchie...
...humor, the adventures and character of an exploring botanist. "The March Inland," by Albert de Roode, written in the form of extracts from a diary, vividly describes the scenes in the American lines about Santiago; one gets a real glimpse of the experience the army went through in Cuba. "McGullop's Slide," a character sketch with rather a skilful climax, and "Mrs. Johnson's Triumph," by G. B. Fernald, are the other stories in the issue. The editorial, on "College Spirit," treats with effectiveness a very old subject which is, nevertheless, still worth writing about...
...reply to an inquiry from the teachers of Cuba as to what arrangements could be made for the instruction of one hundred Cuban teachers in the Summer School, President Eliot replied that a balance of $2500, left over from last year's Cuban Summer School fund, could be applied towards the expenses of any Cuban teachers who might come this summer. According to the plan proposed, a part of the teachers' salaries was to be used in paying their expenses, and they were to study only English, which is now prescribed in the Cuban schools. It has not yet been...