Word: properous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well established as Mr. Roosevelt's. He would be the last man to acquiesce tamely in what he believed to be an outrage, and he is not in the habit of respecting persons or office in his expressions of opinion. What now would be think to be the proper attitude of a professor of Law or of History, whose opinion is sure to carry weight, when he sees the President and Congress threatening war against a nation of our own flesh and blood, with whom we have every conceivable interest to live in peace, while war with them would mean...
...Harvard have urged through your columns the Harvard graduates and undergraduates to bring such pressure as they could upon Senators and Congressmen in order to prevent their upholding the honor and dignity of the United States by supporting the President and the Secretary of State in their entirely proper attitude on the Venzuelan question. I do not believe that any considerable number either of Senators or Congressmen wonld consent to betray the American cause, the cuase not only of national honor but in reality of international peace, by abandoning our position in the Venezuelan matter; but I earnestly hope that...
...view of the Monroe Doctrine. If we permit a European nation in each case itself to decide whether or not the territory which it wishes to seize is its own, then the Monroe Doctrine has no real existence; and if the European power refuses to sumit the question to proper arbitration, then all we can do is to find out the facts for ourselves and act accordingly. England's pretentions in this case are wholly inadmissable and the President and Secretary of State and the Senate and House deserve the highest honor for the course they have followed...
...been made that the bowling alleys at the Gymnasium which are now in good condition are likely to be entirely ruined by the careless way in which some men during the past two days have dropped the balls on to the alleys instead of throwing them in the proper manner...
...proper relations of the United States with Hawaii...