Word: subjectivity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...quote one of the leading American statesmen and lawyers in a speech delivered some months ago on this very subject: "Let it be equally well known and understood that any attempt of a non-American nation to sieze a foot of American soil will be treated as a declaration of war against the United States. Such is the Monroe Doctrine...
...Mach addressed the meeting on the subject of "Work in the Association...
...John Fiske will deliver the fourth and last of his series of lectures on the Civil War tonight in Sanders Theatre at 7.45 o'clock. The lecture will be upon the subject of "Chattanooga" and will be illustrated with the stereopticon. The lecture is open to the public...
...Copeland began his lecture last evening by dividing the consideration of his subject into three parts-first, Emerson and Carlyle as men; second, as writers; third as moralists and teachers. The two men were widely different in the circumstances of their birth, ancestry, and early life. Emerson, the well-bern and liberally-trained, descendant of a long line of New England ministers, belonged definitely to the class of gentle-folk. Carlyle, although he was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and became the chief English man of letters, was a Scottish peasant by birth, and remained in some ways a peasant...