Word: protection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Edwards '98, have been sent out along the New England coast signal stations. P. O. Robinson '98, also of the signal corps is still on the Minnesota but will probably be sent to some station this week. If Congress passes the bill now to form a Mosquito Fleet to protect the Massachusetts coast line, the following volunteers will be called out: C. F. Gould '98, H. F. Whitney '99, R. Haughton 1900, A. B. Lapsley '99, H. S. Howard...
Through these means the noblest and finest animals in the world are allowed to be exterminated. Congress has even so far refused to protect the animals in the Yellowstone Park. The only means of effective preserves now used is by private game preservers and such organizations as the New York Zoological Society. For the future hope is to be expected from the rousing of the popular opinion through the press and through the natural history societies...
...United States refuses annexation, there is every reason to believe that Japan would encourage the emigration of her subjects to Hawaii, demand the rights of citizenship for them, and when her interests should predominate in the islands, protect those interests by extending her sovereignty over the islands. The United States is to decide the destiny of Hawaii. Failure to annex means that England will get the islands, or that they will go to Japan...
...Clark, speaking second for the negative, dwelt at length upon the strategic value of Hawaii. He said that possession of Hawaii would not shield the Pacific coast, since Vancouver, the South Sea Islands, China and Japan would become bases of poerations against us, and we would be forced to protect our seaboard and Hawaii in addition, involving an enormous expense for additional land defences and an increased navy. The natural defensibility of our Pacific coast makes this expense unnecessary. Our past experience shows the alternative, annexation without for-tification, to be preferred. Annexation would be merely following our unwise foreign...
...pledges himself to use those tickets personally. There are more than enough in the college element to occupy all the seats, and every time an individual hands over his tickets to a speculator, or to a stranger, he is defrauding other college men of rights which he ought to protect. It is useless, though, to discuss that point further. Men who give the matter any thought at all can see that if they sign for tickets and then pass them over to anybody except their friends they put themselves in a position to be called pretty hard names. The chance...