Word: demands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States, which has been only half aware that there was any Venezuela question, has suddenly been startled by an ultimate demand made upon the country with which we have the closest ties of interest and sympathy, and this coupled with an explicit threat of war. To warn the men of this University that any discussion or criticism of this position of our government can spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three...
...selfish interest so to forbid them, or would our commercial interests be advanced by having the continent populated as fast as possible; shall we permit South Americans to cede their territory to European powers, as our government proposes, or deny it, as some United States Senators demand; if we keep other powers off what shall be our own relation to South America; is there a danger of complications there possibly more real than the peril of European entanglements; is there a danger that "sovereignty" may lead to protectorates, and those to annexations, until our republic becomes unmanageable? These are some...
...colonial dependence on England, would in the end most assuredly invite war. A temperate but resolute insistence upon our rights is the surest way to secure peace. If Harvard men wish peace with honor they will heartily support the national executive and national legislature in the Venezuela matter; will demand that our representatives insist upon the strictest application of the Monroe Doctrine; and will farther demand that immediate preparation be made to build a really first-class Navy...
...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...
...this what England has done? And does not his duty to the American people and their traditions and interests demand such action as the president has taken? And is not any failure to support the president in this action unpatriotic, un-American and so at variance with every Harvard tradition...