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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Venezuela question the issue chiefly raised by Mr. Roosevelt, for upon that subject his communication may be left to have its due weight in proportion to the reasonable and convincing force of his arguments, and I do not mean to intimate either agreement or disagreement with his main position. The thing now chiefly to be noticed is his assumption that any criticism of the position taken by the government is disloyal,- "a discredit to Harvard College," "a spiritless submission to English demands," "The stock-jobbing timidity, the Baboo kind of statesmanship which is clamored for at this moment...
...year Radcliffe College bought an additional lot of land adjoining its estate. This is known as the "Munroe" homestead and contains about 16,000 feet of land, on which there is a small dwelling house. This house has afforded some relief to the over-crowded rooms in the main building...
...been, from the very beginning, the main purpose of the Western campaigns to open the Mississippi to its mouth, and thereby complete the naval blockade of the rebellious states. Thus only could the immense western territory of Texas and Arkansas, with its great store of recruiting material, and its still more valuable store of grain and supplies, be cut off from the eastern states which relied so largely upon this assistance...
...Princeton men everything was eminently satisfactory except the outcome of the contest as given by the judges in their decision. However, the Yale men, having at the beginning a better case, presented their arguments in a masterly and convincing way and by emphasis and reiteration of their main points won the debate...
...bronze statute of Hermes, presented to the Medical School by the late John W. Carter, has been placed on the second floor at the top of the main staircase...