Word: commands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of graduates, including some of the wisest and best of Harvard's sons, who are ready and anxious, if the University Club project commends itself to maturer deliberation as it has done to first, and indeed to second thought, to support it with all the energy at their command. Is it not the only natural response which we, for whose good they are working, can make, to give them our united sympathy and support from now on? A critical, conservative attitude is the only safe one to maintain during the early stages of such an important enterprise as this...
...student is afforded better facilities for the pursuit of one course of study in its higher branches: Educational Review VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, I, 48-49; President Eliot's Report for 1891-2; Four American Universities. p. 26 fg.- (1) He has better equipped libraries and laboratories at his command.- (2) He has the benefit of better instructors.- (c) He enjoys to a fuller extent the advantages of the elective system: Educational Review, IV, 366 fg.; VII, 26; Graduates' Magazine, II, 460.- (1) He is allowed to pursue unhampered the studies for which he is most fitted...
...spite of our familiarity with the name of the Monroe Doctrine the question of our present foreign policy comes as a new one, so long have we happily been exempt from any serious complication, and we are now totally unprepared with any definite policy respecting South America which can command general public support. Discussion is above all what is wanted, and discussion the most radical and searching, for the importance of the decision can not be overestimated. It is not a question of triumphing over England on the particular issue now raised. That is of inferior importance either...
...more time was lost. The veteran Farragut was placed in command of the fleet, mounting 150 guns, and Ben. Butler commanded the land force...
...river was now opened up, as far as Vicksburg, and here the river fleet from above joined Farragut, and the only thing that was needed for the capture of Vicksburg and the conquest of the Mississippi, once for all, was a strong land force. But Halleck was in command and here, as always, he was timid, irresolute. In the west was Vicksburg; in eastern Tennessee was Chattanooga. A great general with Halleck's advantages would have taken both; any prompt courageous man would have taken one; but Halleck straddled between the two and lost both. As a result...