Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...state unnatural and inexpedient;" if it does involve this what shall be our position about Canada; does it involve the position. once taken by our government, that South America controversies can not be arbitrated by European powers; is it for the interest of the human race that a peaceable settlement of South America by European colonies be forbidden; is it for our selfish interest so to forbid them, or would our commercial interests be advanced by having the continent populated as fast as possible; shall we permit South Americans to cede their territory to European powers, as our government proposes...
...administration in 1888 when letters passed between Secretary of State Bayard and Minister Phelps on the matter of British encroachment on Venezuelan territory; and Secretary Bayard wrote then "If indeed it appear there is no fixed limit to the British boundary claim, our good disposition to aid in a settlement might not only be defeated, but be obliged to give place to a feeling of grave concern." I think this shows President Cleveland's present action is not hasty, and I think the standing and recognized judgment of his counsellors is such as to preclude the possibility of its being...
...Andover House took its name in the beginning in a perfectly natural way. Nearly all of those who were concerned in the proposed settlement house were in one way or other associated with the Seminary at Andover. It was never intended, however, that the House should have any official connection with the Seminary. From the first, special efforts have been made to secure the interest and cooperation of all who believe in settlement work. In all the work of the House, sectarian distinctions have been simply ignored...
Among the members of the central board of directors are Professor F. G. Peabody Dr. George Hodges of the Episcopal Theological School, Robert Treat Paine, F. H. Thomas of the Cooperative Society, and James B. Reynolds, head of the university settlement of New York. Professor Peabody and Dean Hodges were among those who spoke on subjects connected with the new organization...
...Chaillu's lecture was well attended, and as interesting as his always are. His original theory of the settlement of England by the Vikings attracted much notice, well-known as it is to many...