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...Trinity College, excellent editions of "The Nemean and Isthmian Odes of Pindar, and as professor of Modern History, he has edited "Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" besides several of Freeman's Histories. He is also editor-in-chief of the historical series entitled "Foreign Statesmen...
Gambetta, one of the first statesmen of the French republic, prophesied that the Mediterranean was to be the theatre of French action, and his prediction has been amply justified. France is today essentially a Mediterranean power...
...member of Congress. At the time of the Spanish War, Mr. Long held the important portfolio in President McKinley's cabinet of Secretary of the Navy. His sagacious management of the navy during those years of war with Spain showed him to be one of the most capable statesmen of the day. At present, Mr. Long is president of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, his term expiring in 1908, and a practising lawyer in Boston...
...know that many and great changes have occurred in this country and in the world in that time--changes political, social, material. Mighty agencies unknown, not dreamed of, when the Constitution was framed are common-place now. The most momentous problems of our day had no existence for the statesmen of that earlier day. Govermental machinery almost indispensable today would have been well nigh useless then. In many respects conditions are entirely changed. If the constitution-makers of the past and widely-different age provided for the exigencies of this period, of whose many new things and new conditions they...
...probably most of you are aware, our city of Kagoshima is the place where were born great Saigo, Kido, and Okubo, who with others helped to create New Japan, and Togo, Oyama, Kuroki, Nogi, and many other heroes and statesmen who took active part in the late RussoJapanese...