Word: seward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...university and offered-to start a fund with $1,000 if the Yale Navy would take up the work of training men for coast defence. We issued a notice asking for volunteers of seagoing experience. We expected about 50 men; 300 applications were received. Professor H. L. Seward, a man of great experience in coastwise navigation, laid out a course of instruction and organized a teaching staff. This division met three evenings a week for instruction, and at the end of March the results of the examination passed our most sanguine hopes...
...Maeterlinck, "The Wreck of the Storm"; G. Moore, "The Brook Kerith"; C Morton, "The Art of Theatrical Makeup"; J. Masefield, "Gallipoli"; B. Matthews, "A Book About the Theatre"; W. J. Locke, "The Wonderful Year"; E. P. Oppenheim, "The Austrian Court from Within"; W. Roberts, "Book-Verse"; F. W. Seward, "Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat"; E. H. Southern, "The Melancholy Tales of Me"; E. P. Stebbing, "Jungle By-Ways in India"; J. Timbs, "English Eccentrics and Eccentricities"; J. White, "Book-Song"; R. Datta, "Echoes from East and West", Stories in Blank Verse" and "Poems, Pictures and Songs...
Yale freshman four. -- Stroke, A. R. Hyatt; 3, W. H. Seward; 2, O. B. James; bow, J. Englis; cox., W. Baker...
...time--men, munitions, money and diplomacy, especially the latter. England was against slavery, but she was also very much in need of cotton and opposed to the United States tariffs; and the problem of keeping England neutral was one of the hardest faced by the Administration. The policy of Seward, secretary of State, seemed to be to embroil the United States abroad, hoping thereby to bring about a reunion at home. Troubled by the actions of his chief minister, Lincoln was plunged into deeper difficulties by the Trent Affair, where Captain Wilks of the United States Navy boarded the British...
...this time made the bonds practically worthless, and few believed in their recuperative powers. When finally Lincoln decided upon the emancipation of slaves by declaration, he did it as a military measure, to hinder the effective use the South was making of black labor in auxiliary departments of warfare. Seward opposed the proclamation, saying that the world would regard it as the last cry of a defeated nation. Lincoln accepted the criticism in part, deciding to defer the issuing of the problamation until after a victory. His opportunity came at Antietam, and in September, 1862, the proclamation was issued...