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...Economically: Mag. Am. Hist., XXI, 132; Republic, II, 88; Forum, VI, 453; No. Am. Rev., vol. 136, pp. 83, 152. - (a) Waterways. - (b) Reserve...
...degradation of the A. B. degree would be injurious. - (a). To the higher scholarship. The A. B. degree has always been the standard of a liberal education: Pres. Eliot in Cent. Mag. June, 1884, p. 203 - (b). To secondary schools, by fitting poor teachers: Wm. C. Collar in Boston Journal, April 4, 1891. - (c). To Harvard's influence for it reverses her policy of raising the standard, pursued for the last thirty years: Minority...
...Memory of Mag" is another one of that class, to which the majority of contributions to the Advocate belong, - character sketches. As a whole, it is not very strong, there being much of what Lang styles "an unnatural coercion to tears...
...There are serious practical difficulties in the way of Annexation. - (a) Increase in the civil service. - (b) Opposition of Great Britain; Fort. Review LV, 120; No. Amer. Rev. vol. 152, p. 473. - (c) Canadians do not favor it; Spectator, vol. 64, 163; Mag. Amer. Hist...
...Reciprocity would insure all the advantages of annexation. - (a) It would be mutually beneficial; No. Amer. Rev. vol. 139. - (b) Canadians desire it; Forum VII, 14; Speeches of Cartwright and Foster in Canadian H. of C., June 27, '91. - (c) It would settle all disputes; Hunt's Mer. Mag. vol. 24. - (d) It would be subject to none of the disadvantages of union; No. Amer...