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...made a failure of business, but his able and fertile mind won him the favor of royalty, and he became the voice of the government upon many important issues. He wrote his pamphlets on all sorts of subjects, - military, political, even educational and moral, and in all showed width of range, patience in detail, lucidity, and vivacity. His sentiments found him support with the government, and accompanying substantial rewards and his lively, telling style won him popularity with the people...
...claims of the U. S. violate the principle of mare liberum: Atlantic Monthly LXV. 184.- (a) Behring Sea not an enclosed sea: Forum VIII, 231; Stanton supra. - (1) Size: Forum. VIII, 231. - (2) Width of the entrance: Atlantic Monthly LXV, 185. - (3) Shores owned by two nations: Stanton supra 76. - (b) Canadian vessels have been seized outside the marginal belt: Atlantic Monthly LXV, 184; Stanton supra, Chap...
...Athletic Association is making an improvement in the board walk, extending from the gymnasium to the Physical Laboratory, which will offer an additional advantage for the training of the Mott Haven candidates. The walk for seventy-five yards is being made twice its former width. This will enable the men to do their outside work without being interfered with by others who are running at a different pace and by the public. As several men will be able to run abreast, short races can also be held. But the greatest advantage may be looked for in bringing...
...Haven team is considerably increased and the inconvenience which is now experienced cannot fail to become greater. Although the curves now are far too sharp and narrow the great objection lies in the straightaway which is used the most. It would be of but little expense to double the width of the track from the gate down to the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, or to broaden it by one half, even, would make a vast improvement on the track as it is now, and the advantages to be gained by such an addition would, I think, justify the necessary expenditure...
...finest marble from Carrara has been used in the construction of each of the rooms. The first floor, aside from the spacious vestibule of white marble which runs the whole width of the building, is devoted to baths, rowing and swimming tanks. The rowing tanks, two in number, are 50x27 feet and 7 feet deep, each surrounded by white marble ambulatories four feet wide. The swimming tank of the same size is also surrounded with marble ambulatories and lounging galleries wainscotted five feet high all around with Italian marble, and is graded so as to be from five to eight...