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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...northeastern part of France may be divided into three parts drained by the Seine, the Meuse and the Moselle respectively. The region drained by the Meuse is very narrow. The river itself is like the trimmed Lombardy poplars which grew along the roadsides in France, having a long slim trunk and few branches. Unlike the Meuse the Seine and the Moselle draw their waters from a wide area...
...Moselle, like the Seine, meanders through a flat upland. The Moselle offers a good example of a river cutting itself off by drilling through a narrow headland. Its tributaries have eaten their way back and have drawn into the Moselle waters which formerly flowed into the Meuse...
...missionary societies are not conducted in a business-like manner.- (a) Their accounts are vague and unsatisfactory.- (b) The great number of clerks and secretaries are costly and dispensable: Canon Taylor, Missionary Finance, Fortnightly Review...
...rooms are small and it is impossible to extend invitations outside of the members of the Union. We feel, however, that it would be a good thing for the debating interests of the University if the Harvard clubs could hold some public debates during the year with other like organizations, whether of other colleges or not. Some such debating rivalry would certainly add a new stimulous to the interest now given to the clubs in their regular weekly meetings...
...spirit.- (1) Readiness shown to think of war: Nation LXI, p. 458 (Dec. 26, 1895).- (2) General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation, LXI, pp. 420-421 (Dec. 12, 1895); and ibid...