Word: marred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Union to a joint extempore debate, that is one in which the debaters shall make impromptu speeches upon a subject to be announced on the evening of the debate. Such a debate would not only be unique but it would prevent the set speeches which so frequently mar the ordinary debate. It was expected that Col. Higginson would address the Club on April 21 but a note received from him on Tuesday stated that he had been called to Vermont on business on that date and would be unable to address the club until later in the year...
...delay in placing the French Magazines in the Library reading room? The Revue des Deux Mondes arrives promptly, but the others are lamentably late. For example the last number of the Revue Encyclopedique that is now in the reading room is that for Feb. 15: the number for Mar. 15 is due. Such delay is certainly avoidable; for even the Nouvelle Revue, a persistently late magazine, reaches Boston regularly at least a week before we have it here. Cannot such an abuse, detracting as it does from the interest and usefulness of these periodicals, be remedied...
...THWAITS and J. D. UPTON.Best general references: Journal of the Franklin Institute, CXXXIV, 1,120; John Sherman, Forum XI, 1; Overland Monthly, XIX, 215 (Mar. 1892), Forum, XII, 714, 721; Tucker's Monroe Doctrine; Rodrigues' Panama Canal, 173-240; Foreign Relations of U. S. for 1874, p. 178; Proceedings of the Nicaragua Canal Convention...
...Monroe Doctrine demands that the U. S. control the canal: Tucker's Monroe Doctrine Chap. i. - (a) No foreign nation should be allowed to get control. - (b) No joint protectorate would be in consonance with the Monroe Doctrine: President Hayes' Message Mar. 8, 1880. Cong...
...Mar. 31. - Xenophon in the Class Room...