Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undertaking an unprecedented task, that of civilizing a nation. The Indians have lost all the civil society which they once had. The change has been gradual. We have placed over them a little despot - the Indian Agent. We depose and dispose of their chiefs as we like and we govern them without any any system of laws. We have not built upon what they had; we have destroyed it. All those best informed about the Indians say that what they need most is law. Educate them we must; religious instruction we owe them, but first of all, give them laws...
...formation of the Chicago Society for University Extension. Prominent citizens of Chicago together with the State Universities of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, the Northwestern University, Lake Forest University, Beloit College, the University of Chicago and Wabash College, have united their efforts and organized on a co-operative bases like that of the New York and London Societies. The officers chosen were Franklin M. Head, president; Mrs. Charles Henrotin, vice-president; Franklin Mac Veagh Yale '62 treasurer, and C. N. Zeublin, Yale '89, L. S., secretary. The president and two members of the faculty of each institution form the joint university...
...work the Union is doing; but the same amount of money coming from college men will have many times the value to the Union. It is the connection of the Union with the college which makes it attractive to the young mechanics and laborers who are members. They like to feel that Harvard students are enough interested in this work to unite with them to bear the burden of its financial support. It is evidence that we expect to receive as well as to give in our intercourse with them; and it is this give and take relation which...
...precarious basis, more money is needed. About $100 could well be expended to furnish one of the rooms as a settlement room where students could live, as several are willing to do, for a few weeks, getting acquainted with the members and making themselves useful in many ways. A like sum is needed for furniture in the class and lecture rooms, for books, maps, etc., and more could be advantageously used...
...BRIGGS.As Kitchin's France is out of print I should like to buy or borrow several copies...