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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wednesday.Board of Overseers. Stated Meeting at No. 50 State St., Boston...
...Duty of the State to Special Classes...
...question has been one of diplomatic importance for some years and was the subject of earnest consideration by the administration in 1888 when letters passed between Secretary of State Bayard and Minister Phelps on the matter of British encroachment on Venezuelan territory; and Secretary Bayard wrote then "If indeed it appear there is no fixed limit to the British boundary claim, our good disposition to aid in a settlement might not only be defeated, but be obliged to give place to a feeling of grave concern." I think this shows President Cleveland's present action is not hasty...
...intense war-spirit now manifested in our treatment of foreign affairs seems to us a menace to the welfare of our country and to her high stand among the civilized nations. We assert that it is a duty entailed on us as citizens of the United States to do every thing in our power to oppose the war-spirit so rampant now. We therefore suggest that every member of the University, whether student or professor, write a personal letter to the senators of his state and the representative of his district, deprecating the warlike policy indicated in the President...
...scholarships have been established at Williams College the past year. One of $3500 was endowed by ex-Governor Pennoyer of Oregon, in memory of his son, who died at the college in November, 1894. In assigning this scholarship, preference is to be given to students from the state of Oregon...