Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from Connecticut, 275 from New York state, 94 from Ohio, 89 from Massachusetts, 88 from Pennsylvania, 71 from Illinois. Of the extreme western states Colorado sends 13 and California 11. There are 12 from Japan, 8 from Canada, 5 from the Sandwich islands, 2 from Wales and 3 from Turkey...
...Turkey, today, is no match for Russia. Constantinople is a fixed point in Russian policy, and only the influence of England wards off the inevitable result of the clever diplomacy and vast resources of the empire of the Tsars...
...government of Turkey is to blame for this decadence, and not the people. They are still as brave and enduring as of old, and possess the same excellent qualities as their ancestors. These virtues, however, are useless without civilization, and internal reforms are necessary, if the nation is to maintain its independent existence...
...religious differences between Persia and Turkey would make a great religious movement impossible. Isolated attempts at a religious crusade. like that which marked the rise of Islam, may succeed temporarily. The Mahdi in the Soudan may hold out for a time against the force sent against him. The intelligent Moslems, however, realize the utter hopelessness of an assault upon the Christian powers...
...early rumors seemed to predict. The following is a resume of an interesting table showing the local distribution of the freshman class: Connecticut sends 90; New York, 63; Massachusetts, 20: Illinois, 17; New Jersey, 16; Ohio, 15; Pennsylvania, 13. Colorado, Missouri, Kentucky, District of Columbia, Nebraska, Japan, Turkey, Canada, and others send small delegations under ten. The grand total...