Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last obstacle to the construction of the Charles River Dam was removed yesterday, when, under the laws governing harbor improvements, the approval of Acting Secretary of War Oliver was obtained for the general construction plans...
...event, toward which nature has been steadily moving--the heir of all the ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when doubt is diversified by faith...
Channing Clapp '55 died in Boston last Friday, at the age of 68. He served through the Civil War as a member of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, and then engaged in the cotton planting business. Later the returned North, and became a prominent cotton merchant and manufacturer. He was president of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company for four years and retired from active business only a few years...
...School Association has arranged to hold its first celebration since 1895 in Cambridge this year on June 28, the day before Commencement. Hon. W. H. Taft, Secretary of War, will deliver on creation at noon in Sanders Theatre, after which there will be a dinner at the Union. Among these who will speak Informally at the dinner are: President Eliot, Dean Ames, of the Law School, the Non. J. D. Long '57, M. P. Knowlton, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and F. W. Savage, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. A business meeting...
Calvinism, the French form of Protestantism, has the systematic logic characteristic of the French spirit, and that system accounts for its success with other nations. The principal reason for Antiprotestantism is that certain Protestants took part in the war directed by political parties against the Catholic Church. Most clear-sighted Protestantsin France are against this attack, feeling that Anticlericalism under present conditions threatens Christianity and all religion...