Word: britain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first of the series, "The British Empire of Today," will come tomorrow. The subjects of the other lectures will be: "Great Britain's Predecessors and Rivals in Empire Building," "The Making of the British Empire of Today and the Conquest of India," "The First of the Greater Britains Beyond the Seas, Canada," "Australasia and Its Island Continents," "Africa, the Laggard Continent," "The Power of the Empire...
...Lowell:--The sense of academic solidarity is appropriate not only to the members of a single college or a single university, but to the common brotherhood of universities and colleges. I am on that account bold enough to speak in behalf of delegates from universities and colleges in Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Bohemia, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Cuba, Cape of Good Hope, and New Zealand. Sir, I convey to you on behalf of all these a message of heart-felt congratulation and good wishes on the occasion of your inauguration in the words of the cable message which I have...
Class Committee--Robert Middlemass Middlemass, of New Britain, Conn.; William McNear Rand, of Watertown, Mass...
...Richard Olney L.'58 was next called upon to say a few words. Mr. Olney spoke of the treaties which Great Britain and the United States passed during the second Cleveland administration, though at the time much criticized, introducing Japan on an equality with all other countries. The one grievance which he found with Japan was that its military prowess, both on land and sea, is used as a reason, whether true or false, for the United States keeping up large war expenditures. "Japan," he said, "lies in the East and does not interfere with America. Both are island powers...
...meeting of the Student Council yesterday afternoon, the following officers were elected for the second half-year: president, Arthur Goodrich Cable '09, of Evanston, Ill.; vice-president, William McNear Rand '09, of Cambridge; secretary, Robert Middlemass Middle-mass '09, of New Britain, Conn...