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...English control of Canada has been a failure. [a] it has not developed the resources of the country. [b] the system of government is costly and unsuitable, [c] Canadian welfare has been sacrificed to British interests; Dublin Review, vol. 35 p. 151; Forum, July 1887; ibid March, 1889: August, 1889; Contemporary Review, Nov. 1881, Handbook of Commercial Union; Bourinot's Constitutional Manual of Canada; Bryce's American Common wealth. II. 410; Dilke's Problems of Great Britain c. 1; Payne's Colonial Dependencies...
Seymour Howell was born at Mt. Morris. in the Genesee Valley, New York, August 20th, 1869. His preparation for Harvard was begun in Albany, his home for the greater part of his life, and completed with tutors at a family country place in Mt. Morris...
...gifts to form new funds or increase old ones have amounted to $277.282.03. The total amount given to the University during the year was thus $439,507.52. The total of the funds controlled by the Corporation on July 31, 1890 was$7,121,854.96, against $6,874,046.25 on August 1, 1889. This shows a total increase during the year of $247,808.71. The gifts forming new funds or increasing old ones amounted to $277,282.03, as aforesaid. The funds of the University, excluding the gifts to capital account, showed, therefore, a net decrease...
...August the instruments on Wilson's Peak in California were sent to Cambridge for shipment to Areguipa in Pern, the location chosen for further observations. Great service was rendered the expedition by Hon. John Hicks, American minister to Pern, and Senor L. L. De Rumma of Areguipa, under whose direction valuable meteorological observations were made...
Professor Shaler's recent contributions to periodical literature, include: "Man and Nature in America, first paper," in September Scribner's. "Scientific Expeditions from American Colleges," in October Chatauqua, and "The Uses and Limits of Academic Culture," in the August Atlantic. This last is especially interesting to Harvard men, as Professor Shaler bases his arguments largely on Harvard facts...