Word: existing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unfortunate people of Europe. Whereas, for the first fifty or sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, our population was augmented almost entirely by people who had had experience in self-government, today the additions come from countries where the people are degraded and the democratic idea hardly exists. It is unnatural to suppose that evolution to a bigher type can take place for many years to come. The speaker then went on to show many specific evils that actualty exist, especially in the congested portions of our large cities and in mining camps as a direct result...
...closing, Rosenthal said that to remedy the evils which exist the affirmative offered several plans, any one of which would be practical. An educational test, a capitation tax, or the requirement that the immigrant be a skilled laborer, would decrease the number of undesirable immigrants who come to the United States...
...Classical Archxology and Art in the University of Oxford, formerly Disney Professor of Archxology in Cambridge, has accepted the invitation of the Council of the Archxological Institute of America to lecture before the Societies of the Institute during April and May of the present year. Societies of the Institute exist at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Cincinnati, Cleveland, De roit, Chicago and Madison...
...Captain Jennico, an English gentlemen, falls heir to the great estate of Tollendhal, situated in northern Austria, and here a marvellous series of adventures befalls him and a certain Princess Ottilie of Lausitz-Rothenburg. The tale reminds one slightly of "The Prisoner of Zenda," in the familiar relations which exist between the young English hero and the foreign princess, but here the resemblance stops. The story moves from Austria to England and back again, and introduces a number of striking characters in both countries...
...competed in the B. A. A. games Saturday evening was most gratifying. Winter indoor meetings are of course chiefly useful as a means of breaking in inexperienced men. As a gauge of progress made the games are interesting, and though the conditions are very different from those which exist in the open air contests, Saturday's meeting speaks well for the prospects of this year's team. We congratulate Captain Bigelow on the good beginning he has made, and hope that he may keep up the gait...