Word: consuls
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Yeomans '00, the second speaker for the affirmative, after calling attention to the advantages of the affirmative policy as an emergency measure, declared that the more important question is one of permanent policy. "Consul Hanna, in his report for last year, declared that the time will not come for American business men to develop the island until it has American government and until the laws of the United States are enforced...
...several years. He afterwards studied law and practiced in Boston, where his office was on Court street. He purchased an interest in the Boston Daily Advertiser and in 1862 became editor-in-chief of that paper when Charles Hale '50, the former editor, went to Egypt as United States consul. During the war the Advertiser was conservative and loyal to the Union cause, though it frequently criticised the administration. In 1870 Professor Dunbar sold his interest in the Advertiser and resigned his position as head of the paper...
...Hammer makes this gift in memory of her husband, Mr. Emil C. Hammer, Danish Consul at the port of Boston from 1859 to 1894. Mr. Hammer in his lifetime was much interested in Harvard, and on various occasions presented books to the Library. It is therefore a very suitable memorial which his widow has now raised in his honor...