Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...these books, but also makes the card catalogue of American collections at Washington complete. In this way a person may be advised not merely upon what literature exists, dealing with a certain subject; but also where the particular books required may be most conveniently found. An investigator failing to find in one of these subscribing libraries a work dealing with his subject of research, may easily ascertain whether it is contained in the National Library by reference to these cards; and may, through the intervention of the local library, obtain the use of it under the system of interlibrary loan...
...supplement the 'Letters' with other letters, as to complement those volumes with a more formal biography." Keeping this aim in view, the author has quoted from letters only as they throw light on his subject, and does not use them as the foundation of his work. Thus though we find numerous quotations, we read a connected narrative instead of a printed correspondence...
...valuable books on these subjects. During his stay in this country which will extend over a period of two or three months, he will address a large number of educational institutions and will make an extensive study of economic conditions for the French government. He will also try to find a suitable site for the proposed French Industrial College...
...students might skate who were not out playing on the hockey teams. Why is there no such rink this year? I should be inclined to say that while the number of men who play hockey is comparatively small, the number of men who would like to skate, and who find themselves on the one hand too busy to go to the far-away ponds, and on the other, excluded from the College rinks, is very large. If the expense is larger than the subscription of one dollar apiece assessed last year, why could not the amount be made two dollars...
Important as it is to apply this doctrine of equal rights in settling domestic questions, it is even more important to apply it in settling foreign questions, in which we actually touch other nations. I find that we are asserting today a doctrine against which Washington took up his sword. They call it expansion, but I deny it. There is a difference between expansion and imperialism...