Word: past
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...slave trade was then successively taken up by the Dutch, the English, and finally in 1807 by the Americans, the transportation of slaves growing from several thousand in 1450 to over 60,000 in 1790. The present condition of the negro race is due in great measure to the past terrible brutality of the slave traders and unless the race is given the inspiration to rise, the very foundations of government are endangered. In conclusion, the speaker explained the present crop-lien system in the south whereby crops are mortgaged while growing, and stated that the remedy of this evil...
Professor Culin is the curator of the Museum of Science and Art of the University of Pennsylvania, and is a prominent anthropologist. For the past three or four years he has been engaged in research work among the Pueblo people of Arizona and New Mexico...
...University of Rome, will give the last of his series of four lectures in French this evening at 8 o'clock, in the Fogg Lecture Room. His subject will be "Le Pape et Le Clerge." Professor de Gubernatis will explain what the Pope has been in the past, will trace the rise of his temporal power, and will discuss the possibility of a reconciliation between Italy and the Roman Church...
...Matthews. Two hose carts, each carrying 300 feet of two and one-half inch fire hose, will be placed in an accessible place in the basement of either University Hall or Weld Hall. At present there is a main connected with three hydrants, extending from the Fogg Museum past the east side of University Hall to Boylston Hall, as well as nine hydrants encircling the Yard just outside of its limits. When the installation of the new hydrants is completed every building in the Yard, with the exception of the Fogg Museum and Robinson Hall, will be within easy reach...
...have upheld the old studies and uplifted the new. You have given a new definition to a liberal education. The University has become the expression of the highest intellectual forces of the present as well as the past...