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...kicking begins today. It is to take place on the land back of Divinity hall and is to last three weeks. At the end of each week, every man's score is to be made out, and a cup will be given to the man having the best record. Every candidate will have to kick 30 balls, taking about half an hour, from different positions, every day except Saturday...
...expense of constructing and maintaining a large navy is enormous: Congressional Record, Vol. 18, page 1812; British Almanac, 1889, page...
...February, 1889; (b) they are constantly being rendered useless by new inventions:- Forum, vol., 6, p. 370; Lippincott's, vol. 29, p. 346; (c) other means of warfare would be more serviceable to the United States:- Porter, North American Review for February, 1889, p. 213; Speech of Ingalls, Congressional Record, vol. 18, p. 108; speech of King, Congressional Record...
...possession of a large navy is an incentive to war:- Speech of Oates, Congressional Record, vol. 17, p. 2344; Cobden's speeches...
...United States do not require a large navy. (a) We have no distant colonies to defend:- Holman's speech, Congressional Record, vol. 18, Appendix, p. 97; (b) we have proved our ability to maintain our rights without the support or a large navy, e. g. the Oregan Question, (see Schouler's History of the United States, vol 4, p. 503); The Alabama claims:- (see McCarthy, History of Our Own Times...