Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...articles describing life in the Penal Colony in French Guiana gained notice from the French government and led to agitation for reform of the terrible conditions which he said existed there. The war halted these attempts at reform, but now they have been resumed and may lead to the abolition of the colony. Colonel Furlong will tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued on to Cayenne, where he observed the tragic life of the French convicts. From there he crossed...
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...nothing is more likely to lead this country into friction and into war with other powers than to allow them to think that we do not mean what we say. That is not aggression, that is not pugnacity; it is a business arrangement so that everybody may know that when we say a thing we mean...
...landed in the lap of Yale University. Edward S. Harkness, Manhattan Maecenas, gave $1,000,000 to the Yale School of Fine Arts for the establishment of a dramatics department, the erection of a theatre, the gathering of a dramatics faculty. Speedily Prof. George Pierce Baker was invited to lead this faculty. Speedily he accepted. Presto-Harvard had lost the 47 Workshop altogether. Said the Crimson, bitterly : "The President and the Board of Overseers, with their shameful neglect, are accountable." Said President Lowell, laconic, sad at heart: "The gift to Yale of $1,000,000 supplies an endowment that does...
...claim is evident to all those with memories of the quarters, equipment, and personnel of Biology I. More detailed and saddening points may be found is the recent article of Dr. Barbour in the Alumni Bulletin on "Biology at Harvard". This article, which contains considerable truth, would not lead one to think that Biology was being systematically built up here, bus rather that what remains is the remnant of a more prosperous period of twenty years ago. Are we to suppose that this condition is in no way related to a certain indifference of the present administration toward this department...