Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...engineering building at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, was destroyed by fire yesterday at a loss of over $750,000. It contained several collections which can never be replaced, and was said to be the best equipped building of its kind in North America...
...disdain is more than offset by the enthusiasm of Pepe's father, a comical, loving old gentleman with an unmanageable tongue. Pepe returns with the picture unsold. Soon after this shock, a millionaire plantation owner, Don Manuel, comes from Havana to help Pepito, his nephew, whom he has never seen. He mistakes Pepe for Pepito, buys his picture, and invites the artist to move over to his house...
...about two weeks ago. He said that the Russian people had just awakened from a period of inertia, and a flush of activity is now passing over them: but it is difficult to find any moral or intellectual impulse in this activity. On the country, licentiousness and gambling were never more prevalent. The great cry of the people has been for more land, but it is a well-known fact, that the land already possessed by the peasants is very rarely cultivated sufficiently to support them. Violences have occurred, quite as much on the part of the people...
...they carried its privileges to a great excess. Now it is the endeavor of the government to get the peasant back to his original state, and let him out of his confinement by gradual stages, but the step which has been taken cannot now be retracted; the peasants will never relinquish the small claims to freedom which they have obtained...
...judge from the present specimen, readers of the Advocate for the rest of the year may expect to find there each fortnight a few suggestive editorial notes, in the discussion of which undergraduates may find occasion to sharpen their wits, several short stories calculated to suit varying tastes but never dull, and some bits of verse which should not be analyzed too closely...