Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre, Hon. John W. Foster, of Washington, will speak under the joint auspices of the Christian Association, the Religious Union and the St. Paul's Society, on "What Shall America Do in the Orient?" R. H. Oveson '05 will preside...
...rapidly and has fulfilled its purpose of bringing together the most eminent active ornithologists in the country, and of regulating the nomenclature of North American birds. Among speakers at the present convention are officers of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, and of the Department of Agriculture at Washington...
February 23.--Washington Continentals at Schenectady...
...from beast--the power to look ahead and comprehend the invisible. This keen perception of the unseen, or, as it sometimes is, merely the power of putting two and two together, has been a characteristic of the most eminent men of history. Without it such leaders as Moses. Washington, and Lincoln, or scientists like Newton and Franklin would have been impotent. Friendship and love, which necessitate a belief and trust in discos qualities, and even religion itself, without this seventh sense would be impossible
...Foster is an authority on questions of diplomacy. He was minister to Mexico from 1873 to 1880 and minister to Russia from 1880 to 1881. He established a law practice in international cases in Washington, representing foreign legations before commissions and arbitration boards. From 1883 to 1885 he was minister to Spain. In 1891 he was special plenipotentiary to negotiate reciprocity treaties with Brazil, Spain, Germany, and the British West Indies. In the year 1892 to 1893 he was Secretary of State under President Harrison. He acted as the United States agent in the Behring Sea Arbitration at Paris...