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...worker for peace, and did not willfully precipitate the war. This statement is usually greeted with smiles, and references to the enormous military organization of Germany, and to historical fact. Our military preparations will be undeniable, and unfortunately historical. Fact is none too reassuring in our case. Our expansion southward in Porto Rico. Panama, San Domingo, Danish West Indass, Hayti, Nicaragua,--not to mention the Philippines,--has been steady and sure. We point with pride to Cuba as a proof of our altruistic motives, but it is hard to persuade a foreigner that the incident is closed even...
...related by him to an Associated Press correspondent at Cairo, is surely a story of romance. The expedition had gone far up the Nile, to Napata, in the province of Dongola, on that stretch of the great river where, after its plunge at the Mograt cataract, it turns southward, to plunge once more and to bend northward again at old Dongola. This is the region where ancient Egypt merged into Ethiopia, and where the architectural and other remains of antiquity betray the presence of kings more ancient still than those who built the temples of Napata. Where does the romance...
...great exaggeration to say that it would be impossible to find a man more qualified than he to fulfill the purpose for which this professorship was founded, namely, to spread sane and accurate knowledge of the past and present conditions of our sister republics to the southward...
...PATHOLOGICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Leukemia in Animals." Drs. Tyzzer and Ordway. "Anatomy of Senile Dementia." Dr. Southward. "Contribution to the Pathological Chemistry of Carbonic Acid." Dr. Henderson. Library of Pathological Department, Building D, Medical School, Longweed avenue, Boston, 4 P. M. Open to members of the University and to physicians...
...proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones of Livy. From here we turn southward to Mantua with its undying memories of Virgil, and thence to Ferrara, celebrated for the massive towers of its moated castle. Dr. Sandys then touched upon Naples, where we may see the lofty arch of the Castello Nuovo. Here the centre of classic interest lies in the tomb of Virgil...