Word: annexation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard division, which will be the most prominent in the parade, will be under the marshalship of W. S. Garrison, Jr. Old John and Annex on a dray will be prominent features. The Glee Club will march in a body and sing popular airs along the route. Red lights, to be furnished by the club, will be distributed on Monday. Several bands have been engaged. The transparencies will be confined to opinions of Bryan and Sound Money, the non-partisan element in the parade not allowing the use of the names of either Palmer and Buckner or McKinley and Hobart...
...first time held in Sanders Theatre, and twenty-three students received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Of these, seven received the degree magna cum laude, seven the degree cum laude. Three persons received the degree Master of Arts and forty-five of the Alumnae of the Annex who hold the certificate of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women received the Radcliffe degree...
...debating club meets at 3 o'clock today, in Sever 5, to discuss the resolve, "That the United States should annex Cuba." Members of the University are invited to be present and to speak from the house...
...that the dynamite made little impression. On each side of the portico were massive pillars of Italian marble, which were carved in Italy at a great cost for Mr. Jefferson. These could not be overthrown. By this time the fire had got beyond all bounds, and leaped from the annex to the rotunda. The firemen at once directed their attention to this building, as in it was the fine library of 63,000 volumes, many of them extremely rare and valuable; a life-size statue of Jefferson, and a large number of magnificent portraits and rare works...
...their haste to annex land the European nations have taken no trouble to civilize the inhabitants, and have often dealt unfairly with them. The first colony was planted in the south by the Portugese. After them the Italians appeared and now control a large amount of land near the Red Sea. Germany took no part in this contest till 1882, but she now has valuable possessions near the coast...