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...once. The Democratic party will introduce very soon in Congress two resolutions, one asking immediate independence and the other asking that a date be fixed on which it will be granted. The probabtional idea of the Nacionalistas seems to have found most favor, and many prominent officials in Manila advocate it because it seems the only way to prove that the Filipinos are capable of ruling themselves...
...order were signally failures. Aguinaldo, it is thought, believed that upon the ousting of Spain, the Philippines would be entirely free. The peace treaty turned possession of the Islands from Spain to the United States. This disappointment and the refusal to admit the Filipino leader and his men into Manila, precipitated a revolt, which an American military force of occupation succeeded in putting down only after three years of campaigning...
...have thus given to the Philippine problem has undoubtedly presented the case to hundreds of Harvard men who are continually misled by the prejudiced articles in other papers. Certainly it must have interested the many who have been more than surprised to learn that there are Universities in Manila, and that the archipelago is not entirely "made up of forests and jungles" as a Junior once frankly put his conception of those islands...
...follows: acting, Charles Alfred Fritz 1G. of Westville, Ohio; Kenneth Ormsby Mott-Smith '22 of Schenectady, N. Y., and Conrad Salinger '23 of Brookline; prompting, William Frederick Woodfield '23 of Morristown, N. J.; properties, John Jerome Drew '23 of New York, N. Y., and Marcial Primitivo Lichauco '23 of Manila, P. I.; stage, Edward Warner Baldwin '23 of Hempstead, L. L., N. Y., and Dudley Winthrop Hallett '24 of Dorchester; business and publicity, Richard Stoddard Aldrich '25 of Brookline, Ralph de Someri Childs '24 of Kansas City, Mo., Roswell Herring Chrisman '23 of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and William Heston McPherson...
...territory, but in the fact that the island is the key to telegraphic communication with the Far East. "All messages for the Dutch Indies," President Mackay of the Commercial Cable Company has testified, "were sent via Yap under normal conditions; and during interruptions of our cable between Guam and Manila, which cut off all communication with the Philippines and China by our route, we diverted traffic via Yap to Shanghai over the German-Dutch system." American commercial expansion demands communications with Asia that will not be under the control of a competing power. The United States disputes the award...