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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suppression of the latter. The very nature of our civilization demands that these armies shall be maintained. They have also a historical justification. The Persians. the Egyptians, and the Greeks all maintained large military establishments. Armies protect commerce, they prevent many wars and shorten others. They are, so to speak, a tax for insurance. Military discipline educates the lower classes, and begets in a man a cordial and enthusiastic love of country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 3/18/1887 | See Source »

...LOEB, Sec'y.DEUTSCHER VEREIN. - Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Hollis 21. Prof. Lanman will speak on "The Connection between Indian and German Fables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 3/17/1887 | See Source »

...following members of '88 will be entitled to speak for the Junior Exhibition Prize, which will be contested for on March 31: Lawrence J. Carmalt, Irving Fisher, George B. Fowler, Eugene W. Harten, Orland S. Isbell, Fred. P. Solley, Henry L. Stimson and Frank L. Woodward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 3/17/1887 | See Source »

...great pity that at a pleasant reunion such as this, Captain Peters could not have laid aside his ancient and well-known grudge against Harvard; but it is a still greater pity that he should so far forget himself at a public dinner as to speak in such ungentlemanly and ungenerous terms of a defeated rival. There are, of course, two explanations: Either Captain Peters is no gentleman - which we are loath to suppose - or he was so under the influence of sparkling Hock and iced Moselle that he did not know what he was talking about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/28/1887 | See Source »

DEUTSCHER VEREIN. - There will be a public meeting of the society this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Sever 11. Dr. Francke will speak on "Bismarck und der deutsche Reichstag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice. | 2/24/1887 | See Source »

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