Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...protective legislation with reference to coast-wise traffic, and the general encouragement of national shipping. Until the beginning of the present war, the Brazilian merchant marine did not figure conspicuously in foreign trade. But with the disordered shipping conditions that arose after August 1, 1914, and particularly as a result of the disruption of the pooling agreement between various English and German lines, the Brazilian merchant marine, especially the government line (Lloyds-Brazileiro), suddenly found itself in a very favorable position. Brazilian maritime ambitions have developed considerably during the past two and a half years, which explains the aggressive attitude...
...steps of Widener, Tuesday, at 1 o'clock. Because of the international situation, which may require large numbers of undergraduates to leave College at short notice, the usual photographs of the class and of the Freshmen were taken Monday, several weeks earlier than last year, and as a result the Seniors were photographed without their caps and gowns, contrary to the usual custom. The first order of Senior caps and gowns has arrived, however, at the Co-operative, and are ready for delivery, and in order to facilitate the work of the Class Day Committee all members of the class...
...question before Congress is a more difficult and intricate one. The proper solution will result in this first increment being a democratic, fair selection from the large numbers of our young men, which will go out as a democratic contribution from a great democracy to aid in restoring the freedom and privileges of democracy to the suffering people of a stern autocracy...
...course, the usual college activities have been greatly curtailed, and some of them, such as intercollegiate football and hockey matches, discontinued altogether. The interest in all college societies has greatly decreased as a result of the one overshadowing event which claims our attention. So far as the quality of the work is concerned there may not be very much difference between these days and those prior to the war, but on the whole, I think it may be said that there is not so much evidence of good scholarship today as there was under happier conditions...
...Dramatic Club presented its spring group of one-act plays in the Hasty Pudding Theatre last evening. The performance showed the result of some extremely competent coaching by the new director, Mr. S. A. Eliot, in a general evenness of acting and quietness and realism of tone. Exception might possibly be taken to the sombre quality of all four of the plays produced. The curtain rose on a death bed, but the general atmosphere of gloom which dominated the second and third of the plays made the first piece seem almost a merry trifle. It is called "The Harbour...