Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lack of free registry was not responsible for the decline in American shipping.-(a) Under present laws our merchant marine reached its height.-(b) Decline due to-(1) Destruction of commerce by English-built cruisers: Bates, Chap. 9.-(2) Commercial depression following war.-(3) Mechanical changes-(x) Wood to iron.-(y) Sail to steam...
...Free registry involves grave evils.-(a) Economic. (1) It would annihilate ship-building in U. S.-(2) It would withdraw millions of capital from the country.-(b) National.-(1) It would cripple us in time of war.-(x) No trained workmen.-(y) No shipyards to build in emergency...
...choir sang "Give unto the Lord," by Parker; and "Weary of Earth," by Gilbert. Myron W. Whitney, Jr., '95, and F. W. Thomas L. S. sang the duet "The Lord is a Man of War," from Handel's "Israel in Egypt...
After the war there arose many new issues with which the existing parties were ill-organized to deal. Mr. Curtis cherished an increasing interest in Civil Service reform and other matters upon which both parties were divided. This finally resulted in his withdrawal into the attitude of an independent, from which he could work untrammeled for the objects which seemed to him most important...
...said he was not there to dictate to the students; to bid them take up the sword and follow him into the fight; but simply to outline the war against evil, and to show the social principles of the Salvation Army. First he told of his own struggles, when he had taken his stand alone against the tide of poverty, disease and crime in the eastern part of London. The enterprise at first seemed to him desperate, the hope of making any head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make...