Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wealth developed under protection; (b) under protection the United States have contributed more to the benefit of the world than could have been done under any other policy; (c) a protective tariff secures a nation's markets for its own products and so develops diversified industries which promote the general welfare.- Ellis H. Roberts, New Princeton Review, May, 1887; Stebbins, Amer. Protectionist Manual, ch. 3; Fawcett's Free Trade and Protection...
...University, a weekly periodical devoted to the general interests of all the higher seats of learning, wishing to call forth college talent, has offered $300 for the two best speciments of English composition. There are two prizes of $250 each, one for the best prose paper and the other for the best production in verse. Only students in regular standing of American colleges are allowed to compete. A very commendable feature is that the contestants are not confined to a given set of subjects, but are allowed to choose congenial topics. All matter must be sent before...
...addition to the gentlemen there were many ladies present in the galleries of the large dining hall, which are always especially reserved for the fair sex at these Harvard dinners. Mr. Edmund C. Wetmore, the president of the club, presided. Among the guests of the evening were President Eliot, General W. T. Sherman, Prof. G. H. Balmer, Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Chauncey M. Depew of Yale, Mayor Abram S. Hewitt of Columbia, and General Charles J. Paine. President Eliot responded eloquently to the toast "Our Alma Mater." Among other things he said that Harvard men were...
...upon by nations and scholars as models, and have been studied and commented on for hundreds of years. Mirroring as they do the spirit of their author's age. and having greatly influenced Arabic literature in succeeding ages. they deserve the attention of every one who is interested in general literature or in the history of Islam-that religious system whose adherents are said to number two hundred millions, and whose rapid spread in Africa has been the cause of much earnest discussion, especially within the past year...
...changes proposed by the executive committee in regard to any of the athletic grounds or buildings. It was also voted at the meeting that the captains, managers and treasurers of the football, baseball and track associations, including the University treasurer, constitute an executive committee to have charge of general college athletics...