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...Professor Whipple was called to Harvard to fill the Gordon mcKay professorship of Sanitary Engineering, which he held until his death. During the period when the Harvard Engineering school and Massachusetts Institute of each were co-op with each other he was also Professor of Squatter...
There is old Maum Hannah, squatter, who asked the Lord what to do when a white-trash gentleman built a house on her land and was going to make her tear down her cabin?who got a sign from the Lord, and burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire...
...There are no large fan downers in the Philippines. The farms are small in size and nearly every man owns his plot of ground. The uncultivated area always gives the non-landowner the opportunity to become a squatter, and thus some day to own his won property. As a result of this condition, there are practically no poor in the agricultural districts of the islands. "We, indeed, have our rich, but they do not exist to the extent that they create the poor...
Tremont.- Squatter Sovereignty...
Tremont.- Squatter Sovereignty...