Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...principal advantage the Nicaragua canal possesses over its rivals is that it is aided by the nature of the land about it. Through ninety miles of its length it flows through the lake of Nicargua where little or no dredging will be required...
...choir sang "All Glory, Land, and Honor," by Schumann; Mr. Swarts of the Law School sang a solo, "Jerusalem," and Messrs. Swarts and Shippen sang a duet...
...affirmative, said that mob-violence and strikes fully testify to the character of immigrants. The immigrants are low and do American no possible good; moreover, their object is not to benefit our country, but to get as much as possible out of it and return to their native land. Again the capacity for labor and the character of an immigrant regulate his value to this country; now as these immigrants are in a large majority out of work and in poor houses, this shows that their capacity for work is on the whole every low. It may be said that...
...subject for the next debate will be chosen from the following questions: Resolved: That the United States should not materially increase her navy. Resolved: That the present jury system should be abolished. Resolved: That the purchase of large tracts of land in the U. S. for speculative purposes should be prohibited...
...late issue of the Boston Herald contained an interesting editorial on the need of exercise among the middle aged men of our land, and some quotations may be of interest...