Word: lands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ownership or control of the Shantung Peninsula, a difficulty which has baffled solution by the experts at the Peace Conference, the majority of people in America may be divided into two groups; those who believe China should retain possession of Shantung, and those who believe the sovereignty of that land is necessary to development and prosperity of Japan. And these two classes are each partial to their own view, tending to disregard the claims of the opposite side. It is on the sentiment of the Chinese people toward this question that the words of the Right Reverend Logan Herbert Roots...
...very commonly stated,' they said, that the Chinese have no patriotism and are quite indifferent as to the fate of one of their own provinces, even the sacred province of Shantung. For in Shantung, the Holy Land of China, are the birthplaces of Confucius and Menshious, the two greatest men in many respects China has ever produced...
...Near East: The Land and the Peoples Now and in the Past," January...
...small changes only were made upon the exterior. Among those of the old days who roomed in this hall were James Freeman Clarke, George Frisbie Hoar, Robert G. Shaw, and Jared Sparks. It is supposed that the residence built by President Dunster about 1644 stood on part of the land now covered by this hall. Today it serves among other uses as the meeting place for Professor Baker's famous play-writing class, "English Forty-Seven." BOSTON HERALD...
...observations of their work and achievements, I have been deeply impressed by its character as a national institution in the broadest sense and by the powerful influence that its Faculty and Alumni have had and can have upon the development of law and the establishment of justice throughout our land. Its students, from all parts of the country and from all classes of our people, are trained not only for the bar and the bench, but for leadership in public life...