Word: british
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...religion, and an the efficient government the natives have been taxed forty hours of work per month, for which they were paid the usual wages. In enforcing this there naturally have been isolated instances of cruelty and oppression, but it was a false report on the part of the British Consul of the Congo Free State that gave rise to the late accusations of misrule...
...Tozzer '00, of the Department of American Archaeology and Ethnology, will leave Cambridge today to take charge of an expedition for research in Central America and British Honduras on behalf of the Peabody Museum. With Mr. R. E. Merwin 4G. he will go to New Orleans by train, proceeding from there to Belize, British Honduras, by boat...
Professor F. C. de Sumichrast will give the first of his series of seven illustrated lectures on "The British Empire, its Origin and Growth," under the auspices of the Victoria League in the United States, at 8 o'clock this evening in Chickering Hall, Boston. The subject of tonight's lecture will be "The British Empire of Today...
Professor F. C. de Sumicharst, of the French Department, will give a series of seven illustrated lectures upon "The British Empire, Its Origin and Growth," under the auspices of the Victoria League in the United States. The lectures will be delivered in Chickering Hall, Boston, at 8 o'clock in the evening, on the following dates: October 27, November 17; December 15, January 19, February 16, March 16, and April 20. For those who are not members of the League a charge of 50 cents for each lecture will be made. Season tickets, admitting to the series, may be obtained...
...first of the series, "The British Empire of Today," will come tomorrow. The subjects of the other lectures will be: "Great Britain's Predecessors and Rivals in Empire Building," "The Making of the British Empire of Today and the Conquest of India," "The First of the Greater Britains Beyond the Seas, Canada," "Australasia and Its Island Continents," "Africa, the Laggard Continent," "The Power of the Empire...