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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Khedive to recover Soudan, and caused the death of General Gordon: Quar. Rev., p. 264, (1895).- (b) Public debt has been increased from 475,000,000 to 508,965,299 dollars.- (c) There has been great financial corruption under British rule: J. S. Keay, M. P.- (c) Financial progress is rendered difficult.- (x) The finance department of Egypt is guarded by six European governments. and treaty privileges exist with fourteen powers not in harmony with each other.- (d) Sanitary condition of country worse: Am. Cyclo., 1890.- (e) Crime has increased under British rule: Ibid.- (f) Only one half...
Upon April 21 a bill passed the United States Senate which may have an important bearing on the cheice of a course for the boat race between Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. The bill provides that during the progress of any regatta, amateur or professional, in navigable waters, the Secretary of the Treasury may take such steps as may be necessary to insure the safety of passengers on excursion steamers, by detailing revenue cutters to enforce such rules and regulations as may be adopted. In case the bill passes the House of Representatives it will provide...
...week from next Saturday evening the first public performance of the. Pi Eta play, "The Alcayde," will be given in Cambridge. Rehearsals of chorus and principals have been in progress for several weeks, and everthing points toward a successful production of the new piece. Mr. Edward E. Rose will have entire charge of the production...
...world of change, progress and development, said Mr. Search. The old methods are breaking up and new modifications are presenting themselves in all kinds of life; especially in the culture of children...
While a year ago the question of having a college infirmary was considerably agitated; now some real and tangible progress has been made. Several plans have been drawn gratis by architects interested in the matter, and the Corporation has offered a site to be selected by a committee consisting of President Eliot and Doctor Walcott. It is now necessary to raise a building fund, a fund for furnishing, and a reserved fund for liabilities. It has been decided that owing to the financial depression it is unwise to take steps toward raising a fund by general subscription just at present...