Word: great
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...governor sent out to a people must rule for the benefit of the governed and must understand them. Although we take great care in the selection of the men who are to fill the political positions in this country, we send young and inexperienced men out to the Philippines. Lord Cromer was in Egypt for 18 years; we have had four governors of the islands in eight years. The news that we receive from the East is neither complete nor exact. Only the reports that are allowed to be sent are what we get in this country. There...
...Baldwin addressed a large and interested audience on. "The Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition and Plans for Future Polar Research" in the Living Room of the Union last evening. He outlined his plans for reaching the North Pole and showed the great advantages to be derived from Arctic Exploration. By means of lantern slides he showed some of the difficulties that had to be overcome in those regions...
...There exist vast ice-packs that move slowly along the course of least resistance. The obstruction of Greenland and America on one side and of Asia and the northern archipelago on the other keep the ice in the Arctic Sea. Much of it piles up on the shores in great packs; the rest is forced by the southern winds from Alaska in a narrow path across the polar regions. A cache set adrift at Point Barrow on the Alaskan coast by Captain Melville of the Jeannette, was picked up off the coast of Iceland five years later. It had been...
...which is contrary to the popular view. The idea that a battleship is a godsend to the community where it is built, because it employs so many men was shown to have no relation to the economic question in hand. The employment of too many soldiers is also a great evil, because it prevents these men from being productive laborers and makes them consumers of public money. By the example of the Civil, Boer, Crimean, and Napoleonic Wars, conditions are proved to be at least as bad, if not worse, after a war as during it, disproving the theory that...
...communication of the Chairman of the Trophy Room Committee explaining the apparent neglect of our athletic trophies. As is often the case the neglect is not due to the lack of interest of the men in charge but to the lack of funds in their control. It is a great pity to allow banners and other destructible relics to be ruined because there is not enough money to preserve them, and to allow cups to be hidden away out of sight because there are no cases to put them in. Certainly this is a cause which deserves recognition from...