Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just a few lines to correct a misstatement made by one Eugento Vera in your issue of Sept. 3 concerning the success of the Debating Team of the University of Puerto Rico in the Eastern States this past spring. This team did not win in all its debates. It was defeated by Boston University on April 10, by Bates about a week later and then by Princeton. Of the dozen or so debates in which the Porto Ricans took part, only two were in Spanish. This in itself is certainly an exceedingly fine comment on how much interest is taken...
...Guayama, Puerto Rico...
...Abbott-Clark Emerson A Cleary--G. S. Greene Emerson F Greenless-Webber Emerson D Webster-Ziegler Emerson J Chemistry 3b Harvard 6 Chemistry 21 Emerson J Economics 14 Sever 11 Engin Sciences 7b Pierce 307 English 3b Sever 11 English 11b New Lect. Hall Fine Arts 1d Abbe-Puerto New Fogg Lect. Rm. Randol-Yates Old Fogg Lect. Rm. French 8 Geol. Lect. Rm. German 1b Sever 35 German 5 Harvard 6 German 7 Harvard 2 Government 9a Sever 36 Government 28b Harvard 5 Greek 12 Sever 30 History 8 Harvard 5 History 9 Amory-McKinley Sever 29 Moynthan-Young...
When the letter came out, President Coolidge was revealed as a champion of injured innocence, for he frankly pointed to the incomparably "considerate" treatment Puerto Rico had enjoyed from the U. S. and imputed ingratitude to critics of that treatment...
...long, long letter. It harked back to the Treaty of Paris in 1899, under which Puerto Rico came from Spain to the U. S. It reminded Puerto Ricans that the U. S. never promised to make the island an independent state. It reminded Puerto Ricans what Puerto Ricans were like 30 years ago in the unpleasant language of a Puerto Rican (Dr. Cayetano Coll y Teste) who wrote...