Word: porto
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...enrolment from insular possessions is as follows: Hawaii, 8; Porto Rico, 4; Philippine Islands...
...have had the pros and cons of the Philippine question thoroughly threshed out for our edification in the Union and now we are ready for Porto Rico. There have been happenings of interest and importance here as well during these first years of our territorial expansion movement and it is well to hear of them at first hand. In spite of the articles which appear in the magazines from time to time on the condition of affairs in these new dependencies they are probably little understood and appreciated by the average citizen. A long, carefully prepared magazine article though well...
...Winthrop has had wide experience in this branch of government service. Both in the Philippines and in Porto Rico he has been in position to know the situation as it really exists and what is the best policy to pursue in the government and education of these peoples. His talk this evening should prove of interest to those who have followed at all the government's policy of expansion and who are interested in the insular possessions...
...Beekman Winthrop '97 will speak on "The First Ten Years of American Administration in Porto Rico" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which will be illustrated by lantern slides, will be open to members of the Union only...
...which he was admitted to the bar in 1899. A year later he became private secretary to Mr. Taft, while governor of the Philippine Islands. From 1903 to 1904, Mr. Winthrop was judge of the Court of the First Instance in the Philippines. He was then appointed governor of Porto Rico, which position he held until 1907, when he became assistant secretary of the United States Treasury...