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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Nicaragua Canal is desirable.- (A) Advantages to the world at large are great.- (1) It tends to lessen distances between the commercial centres of the whole world.- (B) It is especially advantageous to the United States.- (1) Hastens development of Pacific slope.- (a) By lessening cost of transportation of western products.- (2) It would enlarge our commerce.- (a) By increasing number of available markets for our products.- (3) Invaluable in case of war.- (a) Brings Atlantic and Pacifics coasts together.- (b) Useful as a strategic point.- (1) In mobilizing troops.- (2) As vantage point for vessels.- (c) It is virtually...
...such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They built their own fires and drew their own water, with frequent explosives of dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons to men in the sixties. The whole sum spent on athletics then was not over $1000. Yet they had their fair share of victories. Many sports now enjoyed were unknown then. The gymnasium then was small, but it was freely and conscientiously used; and the men who graduated then were probably of as sound bodies as those...
...Monday afternoon, under the auspices of the Cliosophic Society. The lecture was intensely interesting and very entertaining with his humor. This lecture was the last of a series of special lectures during the past two weeks which have served, by their interesting character and present importance, to attract the whole university...
...chorus and principals in "Branglebrink" have given most of their attention to the final act, so that the entire play is now well in hand. Complete rehearsals with the orchestra will be begun on Monday, and the first performance on Graduates' Night, Thursday, April 9, will find the whole cast in a state of thorough preparation. The club has been very fortunate this year in the selection of a trainer. Mr. James Gilbert has won the confidence and praise of all connected with the play, and his efforts are sure to be rewarded with success. The care which...
...week by a magnificent presentation of "Lucia di Lammermoor." Donizetti's work is given with attention to detail and a general excellence that has never been attained in this city before. The stage setting is exceedingly harmonious and beautiful, and the costumes of surprising excellence. The performance as a whole is far ahead of many other productions by more pretentious grand opera singers in the past. The laurels of the performance crown the new stars, Mlle. Fatmah Diard and Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys, who has come on from New York to join the company. Mlle. Diard was received with remarkable...