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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shotgun will be offered as first prize, and a cup as second. Each contestant will be handicapped on the basis of his last six scores and will shoot at 120 birds plus his allowance. Two match scores of 20 birds must be completed each week of which the four highest will be counted. Any contestant's handicap may be changed at the discretion of the captain at the close of the first two scores but not thereafter. The entrance fee is three dollars...
...because they lack markets. The coffee planters are without capital to make good the losses of the recent disastrous hurricane. Porto Rico lacks markets as a direct result of American acquisition. There is a solemn obligation upon the United States to furnish a substitute for those lost markets. The highest considerations of justice demand that we open our markets to the Porto Ricans. American markets are ample for Porto Rican Products." He then went on to show that the United States furnished more than sufficient markets, and that in every instance the Porto Rican products formed no serious competitive force...
...include Porto Rico within our customs boundary is economically advantageous to the island; it fulfills our national moral obligations, and it is politically wise in that it upholds the highest spirit of American institutions, of American civilization, and of American governmental ideals...
Columbia's men are Falk, Sewall and Boehm, in the order named. Harvard's representatives have not yet been decided upon. Perry, who made the highest individual record in the intercollegiate contest in December, has left College; Rice has been sick and is unable to play, and Arensberg will probably not come out. This leaves only comparatively inexperienced men for the international team...
...crops, and they were not slow to grasp the close analogy between the physical and the spiritual. They realized fully that just as real hunger is essential to a right appreciation of God's bounty, so a longing for spiritual truth must exist, if we wish to attain the highest things of this world...