Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...coming of trouble between the two countries is due, in part, to changes in the foreign policy of the United States. In 1890 trouble broke out between two factions in Chile, leading to civil war in which the United States, though neutral, became concerned, largely through Minister Egan. Mr. Egan's first mistake was that while showing courtesies to both parties, he plainly favored the party of Balmaceda and expected its triumph. Feeling against the congressional party was shown when they attempted to ship arms from a Californian port on the Itata. However unauthorized this act may have been...
...head of the sprinters and A. C. Williams '92 of the long distance men. The pole vaulters will work under Cartwright '93 and the hammer and shot men under Coxe '93. Allen '93 will take charge of the bicycle men and Avery '93 the tug of war team. There are about one hundred and thirty candidates who will go into training, which is to begin today. Among the sprinters and hurdlers there are Lasell, Lyman and Van Ingen of last years team while the middle and long distance men whose names appear again are Wright, Scovill, Curtis and Williams...
Harvard men will read with pleasure a paper in the Atlantic Monthly by Prof. Shaler on "The Border State Men of the Civil War." Prof. Shaler is himself a Kentuckian, as all college men know, and therefore he is eminently fitted to give excellent final testimony on such a subject. What Prof. Shaler says on the considerations which finally influenced him to cast his lot for the North is particularly interesting...
...federal Union to that of consolidated governments. In this alteration all chance of local autonomy would disappear, probably never to exist again on this continent. Moreover, I saw plainly, as did every other rational person of my acquaintance, that the strife concerning slavery would afford a perennial source of war-breeding trouble between the North and the South...
Twenty-five acres of land and $25,000 have been offered by Secretary of War Elkins to found an academy at Elkins...