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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this development of homogeneity each step has been in sequence to what has preceded. The first desire for union was the result of fear of the mother country. Later, came the War of the Rebellion, the greatest war the world has ever seen, and the result was a Union, welded in the white heat of civil combat. This was not planned, it was evolved. The policy of national liberality to those who have built railroads and factories, was of vast importance to the further development of the Union. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been characterized by contests for territory...
...fishing season lasts only about six months on account of the ice. The cod, which are caught mostly by seines, are shipped to Europe and Brazil, being kept from American markets because of the high tariff. The icebergs are one of the greatest sights of the coast and because of their immense size and large numbers they are also a great danger to the mariner. The pictures of icebergs showed their great beauty, towering height and vivid coloring...
...athletics. Sports should be more generally pursued for the good they can give, for the exercise, the physical development. The great mass of American collegians get nothing out of athletics. They exist for the few; for the Jews and not for the Gentiles. Is not the motto, the greatest good for the greatest number, as applicable to collegians as to the general public? A hundred men or so are engaged in the various sports. But how about the other nineteen hundred? Are not these men worth considering? Are not their health, enjoyment, physical development worth a thought...
...religious life finds it natural to express itself in social service, and thus social service is really a part of that life, and a part which vitally concerns the present age. The greatest shame for a period would, be not that its faith was incomplete or unorthodox, but that it failed to recognize the basis for faith which it possessed; and social service is that basis for today. This tendency toward practical affairs opens for the ministry a wider range for self-sacrifice and duty. Our age has its problem plainly before it, and in its solution lies...
...University, a decrease of a little over 1 per cent. from last year. The present representation from New York State is a little over 12, 1-3 of the total registration as compared with 12 1-2 per cent. last year. Of the foreign countries, China has shown the greatest increase in enrolment in the University, having 19 representatives as compared with 2 last year...