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...Dominions asked that the Mother Country accept the last half only of this scheme: the wall around the Empire. Within this high wall the Dominions wish to maintain their own low walls, protecting their "infant" manufacturing industries from the competition of Englishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen. If Great Britain would be willing to make the Empire wall quite high, the Dominions said in effect, then they would be willing to make their little walls quite low. Point: by this arrangement the Mother Country would buy much more in the way of raw materials from her Dominions than at present (because Argentine...
...part of a tour of American libraries, yesterday morning a delegation of five Englishmen arrived here to study Harvard's libraries. These men, sent by Cambridge University, will stay until tomorrow afternoon, when they will proceed to Boston, to look at the Public Library...
...founded at Harvard as the gift of C. C. Stillman '98. Established to enable the University to call every year for men of international respect, distinguished in their various fields to lecture on verse, music, or fine arts including architecture, the professorship so far has been held exclusively by Englishmen...
Seventy-nine years ago an unlovely $500 flagon with no particular name was to be competed for by 14 vessels of the Royal Yacht Squadron in a free-for-all race off Cowes. America, a rakish Yankee upstart which had crossed the Atlantic with the idea of bullying Englishmen into match races and making its owners some money, was grudgingly permitted to compete. When America came leaning down toward the finish line Queen Victoria asked her signalman who was second. "Your Majesty," he said, "there aren't no second...
...improvement in wheat strains by selective breeding, the limit of wheat growing has been extended farther north, the acreage yield increased. This Professor Bower pointed out as an example of the contribution of experimental botany to the maintenance of civilization. Realizing the importance of the scientists' research, Englishmen have founded new Botanical Institutes in many parts of Great Britain, India, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada...