Word: washington
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Canada. In addition to the lectures at Columbia and Brooklyn he will deliver three lectures on contemporary French critics, on March 21, 22 and 23 before the Peabody Institute at Baltimore. These are to be on "Brunetiere," "Anatole France," and "Jules Lemaitre," respectively. Next he will lecture at the Washington Catholic University of America, and after that before the Catholic Universities of Quebec, Ottawa, and Montreal. On April 23 M. Doumic will said for France...
...international isolation of the United States, I mean that attitude which it has purposely taken outside of the family circle of nations. This rule of isolation took its beginning from the Farewell Address of Washington and since that time it has been continuously handed down,- indeed it could hardly have been more faithfully followed if it had been a part of the constitution...
...reality the Washington rule has a much narrower scope than is generally supposed. Washington's reasons for his position were very simple. The country was young and weak and through geographical separation was naturally aloof from European affairs; it needed time for internal growth and development. Now the country is no longer feeble, science has eliminated distance and our general development has been great...
Nevertheless some of the consequences of treating the Washington rule as continuously applicable have been far-reaching. The best example is, perhaps, to be found in our commercial isolation. Washington meant no such thing and yet the rule has been used as a means of fastening upon the country protection in its most extreme form. But while commercial isolation does not necessarily follow from political isolation, for all that the two policies are allied and being once adopted support each other. Each denotes alike that the nation feels sufficient to itself...
...bill is pending before the Senate to establish a free national university, in accordance with the wishes of George Washington, who indicated in his will as his preference for the site the land now occupied by the old Naval Observatory, and who left a large endowment fund, which has been lost, through negligence on the part of the government. The object of this bill is to found an institution, which would obviate the necessity of foreign study. The present general movement in favor of the university was begun in 1891 by the appointment of a committee, of which Chief Justice...