Word: soils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Hoppin of the Art School has announced the dates and topics of a course of ten lectures on "Greek Art on Greek Soil." A class of juniors and seniors in bookkeeping has been formed by a graduate and quite a number have availed themselves of its advantages. Gifford Pinchot '89 lectured before the Graduates' Club on "Forestry as a Profession." The Hawaian Club held a dinner commemorating the overthrow of the monarchy, and guests were present from Harvard and Princeton...
...Armenians who are thus blindly massacred? Are they parvenus, intruders upon the Turks? Quite the contrary. They are the original inhabitants of the soil, where they had dwelt for thousands of years before the Turk came with sword and fire to take possession. In character industrious and thrifty, and in moral development in no way inferior to that of more western nations, it is particularly interesting for us to notice that they were the very first nation to embrace Christianity; their king accepting the faith for himself and nobles even before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine...
...Monroe Doctrine forbids us to acquiesce in any territorial aggrandizement by a European power on American soil at the expense of an American state. If people wish to reject the Monroe Doctrine in its entirety, their attitde, though discreditable to their farsighted patriotism, is illogical; but let no one pretend that the present Venezuelan case does not come within the strictest view of the Monroe Doctrine. If we permit a European nation in each case itself to decide whether or not the territory which it wishes to seize is its own, then the Monroe Doctrine has no real existence...
...quote one of the leading American statesmen and lawyers in a speech delivered some months ago on this very subject: "Let it be equally well known and understood that any attempt of a non-American nation to sieze a foot of American soil will be treated as a declaration of war against the United States. Such is the Monroe Doctrine...
...last years of his life is an interesting one. It rolls in graceful hills covered with dry grass. Dotted here and there are groups of straw huts. Above is the clear sky and the hot sun. Near the little village bushy headed men may be seen tilling the sandy soil and women carrying huge earthen water jars. There is little variety of scenery except on the shores of the Nile where there are dense forests. The Soudan is almost entirely surrounded by deserts which cut it off from the outside world...