Word: establish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pretensions of the typical Southerner in those days. Mr. Charles B. Elliott deals ably with the "Behring Sea Question" covering the ground from 1820 on. Mr. K. Kaneko the head of the Japanese commission which has been visiting various countries to compare their legislative assemblies, in order to establish a Japanese parliament, gives a clear outline of the Japanese Constitution of February 1889. The three serials are continued. Mrs. Deland's "Sidney" gives us the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters. The story steadily develops in interest and the strong scene with which this installment closes is in the author...
...meeting of the Yale corporation on Thursday it was fornally voted to establish a department of music in the university, with Gustavus J. Stoeckel, for many years Yale's instructor of music, at its head. A fund of nearly three hundred thousand dollars has been placed at the disposal of the corporation, with which to erect a suitable building and provide for the employment of several instructors...
...neighbors because all the people know each other. As the town grows into a large city people are no longer neighbors to each other; poverty, want and crime segregate to the lower and more unhealthy portions of the city and it becomes necessary in order to relieve distress to establish relief societies. These societies simply give alms to the people who apply for them and concern themselves very little in any other means of helping the poor. In the last report of the New York society for the relief of the poor, the opinion is strongly hinted that the charitable...
...meeting of those who intend to try for the tug-of-war team will be held shortly and it is hoped to establish a system of inter-class pulls during the winter...