Word: india
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Seniors are requested to submit before March 10 designs for the tickets named below. Men whose designs are accepted will be given free tickets by the committee. The ticket designs should be drawn in black India ink on white paper, and should be 4 1-2 by 7 1-2 inches in size. Drawings should be very distinct and cover the entire space so as to reduce well. Every design should contain the word "Harvard" and the numeral "1908" should be large and prominent. the following lettering must also appear on acceptable designs...
Foreign countries are represented as follows: Canada, 42; China, 24; Japan, 8; England, 5; Mexico, 4; Republic of Argentina, 4; Germany, 3; Italy, 3; Australia, 2; Gosta Rica, 2; France, 2; Ireland, 2; New Zealand, 2; Russia, 2; Bulgaria, 2; India, 2; Asia Minor, 1; British West Indies, 1; Korea, 1; Peru, 1; Siam, 1; Columbia, 1; Sweden, 1; Turkey, 1; Syria, 1; Roumania, 1; South Africa...
...University musical clubs will give their first concert of the year tonight; at Durrell Hall, Cambridgeport, at 8 o'clock. The concert will be under the auspices of the Harvard Mission, and will be for the benefit of E. C. Carter 100, the Harvard missionary in India. Tickets will be fifty and seventy-five cents, and may be obtained at the Phillips Brooks House, at Hunt's drug store, and at the Cambridge...
...state in which India is placed at the present time, Mr. Rutnam said, is the same as that in which America was in relation to England at the time of the Revolution. "Taxation without representation" is the complaint of the Hindoos, but as the present 305,000,000 population of India exceeds the 3,000,000 of this country in colonial times, so does the greatness of the injustice in India exceeds injustice of the American oppression...
...India contributes $375,000,000 annually to the expenses of the British government and over one-third of this is spent on the army which oppresses the natives. Only $6,000,000 annually goes to the education of the people. Such a drain on the finances of the country is the cause of the annual famines, and indirectly of the plagues, by which India is decimated. The Hindoos are discriminated against unfairly on account of their color; the Civil Service is closed to them, as well as all commands in the army...