Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Maine railroad common stock to endow the Nathaniel Ropes Professorship of Political Economy. The surplus, if any, is to go to the Peabody Museum. A second bequest from the same source of one-half the interest of an annuity bend of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, is to establish the Nathaniel Ropes; Jr., fund, the purpose of which is not stated. At present it is impossible to estimate the value of these bequests...
...seizure of land; namely, by seizure of ships, by the collection of the internal revenues or by temporary holding. Considering love of freedom, South American republics would not allow their lands to be taken away without struggles. If the seizure is allowed in this case, it will establish a precedent which will allow seizures in all cases where there has been an award. In this way the European powers will acquire more territory than is due, and therefore we must look to the future as did President Monroe in the past. To protect the republics from oppression we must...
Finally, there is one danger which outweighs all others. It is the danger to international arbitration. Once establish the precedent that the awards of arbitrary boards can be interfered with and you deal a death blow to arbitration. The United States has insisted on the power to interpret arbitration of South American disputes. By what right does she now insist upon the power to interpret arbitration awards to suit here own selfish interests? The affirmative has taken its stand because we believe that in the lives of men and of nations, personal, selfish considerations must yield to the call...
...Mabilleau began by showing how from the very beginning religion was the first tie of French nationality. Under the old regime Church and State were one, but the great effect of the Revolution was to establish an equilibrium between two distinct social forces. The tendency of the past century has been towards a more complete separation of these powers and the consequent lessening of the influence of religion on politics...
...last meeting of the Board of Overseers, it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes electing Henry Pickering Bowditch, M.D., LL.D., D.Sc., to the George Higginson Professorship of Physiology. It was also voted to establish the Wales Professorship of Sanskrit, the Wales bequest made nearly fifty years ago having fallen due; the Charles Eliot Professorship of Landscape Architecture; and the Nelson Robinson, Jr., Professorship of Architecture, both of which have been founded through funds presented by Mr. Nelson Robinson...