Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...different claims:- Dr. Snow in Forum for Dec. 1887, p. 347.- (b) Area yielded is to our advantage; Senate Minority Report. p. 89.- (c) We yielded inshore fisheries and they are of little value; Edmunds in Senate Report in Message on Fishery Treaty 1888, p. 584; Concessions yielded by Great Britain in Speech of Saulsbury, Congressional Record...
...treaty is disgraceful to our diplomacy, because: (a) the "three-mile limit" in the case of bays is made to be five miles; (b) we are forbidden to enter eleven bays each more than ten miles in width; (c) the municipal dominion of Canada over these great bays is thus increased; (d) our fishermen are prevented from entering bays where the channel is less than three miles from shore...
...great majority of the speakers from the floor were for the negative. Nothing new was developed however, in the discussion by these speakers, ten of whom sided with the negative and four with the affirmative...
...placing of the final examination in English C on the Wednesday before class day has aroused a great deal of complaint among members of the junior class. This is a grievance of long standing and has called forth an annual protest for several years past. According to the present arrangement, many juniors get through all their examinations except English before June 10, and are compelled to stay in Cambridge one or two weeks longer than they otherwise would. If it is the object of the faculty to keep them in Cambridge as long as possible it is difficult to understand...
...manager for the nine will be chosen, and, in addition to the daily games with the 'varsity, games will be arranged with strong out of town teams to be played on days when the 'varsity is engaged in match games. The work of the second nine will, in a great measure, supply the need of good practice games which the captains of the college baseball teams have felt so strongly in the past few years. The second nine can be relied upon to play a game far superior to many teams with whom it has been the custom...