Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Just before the dinner, at the house of Mr. C. S. Hamlin '83, President Eliot received the Order of the Rising Sun from Baron Takahira. The presentation of the decoration was made privately, only a few friends being present. As the President entered the room, the Japanese envoy made the following speech, which President Eliot read at the dinner: "The Emperor, my august sovereign, fully appreciative of the great services you have rendered for the welfare of human life as one of the foremost educators of the age, and for the making of many useful men of Japan who have...
...Hamlin has been active in Democratic circles since 1887, and during President Cleveland's second administration was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He was special commissioner to Japan in 1897 and in the same year was American Envoy at the convention between Russia, Japan and the United States. Since that time he has been successively commissioner at the convention with Great Britain to decide the controversy in regard to seal fisheries, delegate to numerous national conventions, and the delegate of various bar organizations at international conventions. He lectured on government at the University during the years...
...graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1882, and received the degree of LL.D. in 1906. From 1885 to 1890 he was secretary to the United States legation at Madrid. From 1893 to 1894 he served as Third Assistant Secretary of State. In 1894 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ecuador, and held the same office in Chill from 1894 to 1897. Returning to the country in 1898, he held the Bemis Professorship of International Law at Harvard until 1906. Since 1903 Professor Strobel has acted as general adviser to the Government of Siam...
Elihu Root, "Lawyer, jurist, statesman, Secretary of War for four years and a half, now for two years Secretary of State, a diplomatist who represents not a dynasty, or a cabinet, but a people, an envoy of good faith and good will among the nations...
...Hendrik Muller, Diplomatic Envoy from the Orange Free State, and the Rev. Herman van Broekhuizen of Pretoria, spoke at the Union last night on the conditions in South Africa...