Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...editor of the Brooklyn Standard Union, relates the history of Garfield's nomination and administration, giving important conversations with Garfield and interesting personal reminiscences. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in a chapter of autobiography, gives an interesting picture of a New England girl's school at the beginning of the war; and also records reminiscences of Emerson, a guest in her father's house. The art feature is Mr. Will H. Low's article on the great English painters of the early part of the century, with many splendid engravings of their pictures. To any one interested in art these discriminating articles...
Class (a) of the legal tender notes, the "greenbacks," are the result of the financial legislation of the Civil War. For the last sixteen years their volume has been fixed, because, on being presented for redemption, they are reissued. Identical in legal qualities are the Treasury Notes, issued in pursuance of the Sherman Act of 1890. Although, in theory, they may be shifted into silver notes or silver dollars, as a fact, they, too, have remained a fixed quantity. There is a general impression that these notes are different from the U. S. Notes, in that, while the latter will...
...auspices of the Ninth Regiment Athletic Association. The following events will take place: 75 yards dash, handicap; 440 yards run, handicap; 1 mile run, handicap; running high jump, handicap; 880 yards run, scratch, open only to those who have never won a prize for running; team race, tug of war. The entries close Monday, January...
...absolve the government from their responsibility. The state ought to superintend everything and there are some things which it ought not to have outside its own power. For instance, there ought to be no system of private detectives, no private armies. The government should reserve the right of declaring war or of putting down armed resistance; riots, insurrections, and especially crime, which breed ill-will and evil, the state is perfectly justified in suppressing...
...Sumner Prize, offered for the best dissertation on a subject connected with the topic of Universal Peace and the methods by which war may be permanently superceded, is particularly applicable at this time. The subjects on which prizes have been taken, printed in the catalogue, are rather more profound than would be ordinarily expected. As this prize offers a fine opportunity for intelligent study of the questions of peace and war, it is to be hoped that there will be a good many essays handed in for this prize. This prize is open to any student of the University...