Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale argument was as follows: The present navy consisting mainly of cruisers is sufficient for a peace footing. Battleships are money thrown away except in case of war, which is unlikely. Finally, even if war is declared, land defences are more effectual than a seagoing fleet...
Phillip Greenleaf Carleton continued for Harvard, showing that since 1883 the policy of the government has been to build battleships. However, the work, he said, is but begun. He went on to show the weakness of the present navy and the insufficiency of land defence alone to protect our immense seacoast. At present we would be unable to prevent a blockade, a landing of troops, or, in many instances, the bombardment of cities...
...that his plays are written in verse, that declamation is often suffered to interrupt action, and that Shakespeare not infrequently uses what seems to many persons a single and arbitrary psychology-vide for example the marriage of Celia and Oliver and that of Isabella and the Duke-makes Shakespeare-land seem a foreign country to the ordinary play goer and to not a few readers, who are by no means ordinary. But the realistic and materialistic trend of our own time is one of the strongest reasons for going back to Shakespeare's country and dwelling in it until...
...writing about an ideal life free from the turmoils of mankind. Lowell, Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe were stirring the consciences of mankind against slavery. The words of William Lloyd Garrison were engraved upon the memories of Harvard men. The news of John Brown's raid had startled the land, and now the echo of the guns fired at Fort Sumter was heard. On Bloody Monday, 1862, the campaign was begun, which ended with the battle of Antietam, and for the result of which Lincoln was waiting to issue his proclamation of emancipation. Such were the circumstances under which...
There will also be a series of views illustrating the physiographic features of the land, showing stages of portions of the earth's surface from topographic youth to maturity...