Word: equality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seven-inning game between two practice nines, in which the second team defeated the first by the score of 6-0. Dudley, Holland and MacDonald pitched for both teams at different times in the game, and the players were distributed so as to make the teams nearly equal. The second nine was more fortunate in bunching its hits and played a better fielding game. The men still show great weakness in batting, and the proportion of men striking out was unusually large yesterday. The chief difficulty of the work in the field seems to be want of head work...
...Ours is the measure of permanence, for it is the only measure that contemplates equal treatment for Porto Rico and for us. Congress can never follow a permanent, consistent policy when asked to provide separate and distinct tariff legislation for two peoples, to one of which it is responsible and to the other not. The only permanent tariff measure for Porto Rico is the one which gives the island the privileges and responsibilities we enjoy and bear. No more and no less...
...Spanish government granted the island more beneficent privileges than any other Spanish colony enjoyed. Yet the people accepted American occupation willingly, relying on the promise of General Miles that they should enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the people of the United States. One of those privileges was equal trade rights with every other part of the United States...
...Finally, the policy of including Porto Rico within our customs boundary is politically wise, because it follows a line of successful precedent and is in keeping with the spirit of American governmental ideals. The policy of a territorial government with equal treatment for all has met the varying conditions in Louisiana, Florida and Hawali. Now we are asked to break faith with the Porto Ricans and abandon these principles...
...University in 1879. A Director of Physical Training and of the Gymnasium was appointed in that year. Since then there has been a steady growth in the systematic physical training of young men desiring to use the Hemenway Gymnasium, and Dr. Sargent's work has placed Harvard easily equal to any modern university in the opportunities for physical culture offered to the students...