Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student from the kindergarten to the degree, sends eight young men, a number of them from the national naval academy, with three from Colombia and two from Equador. Fourteen is the tally from South America and twenty others come from the Central American countries. Mexico leading with eight, Cuba having seven and Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica dividing the remainder...
...among the militarists, that political power exists merely to further the commercial and other selfish interests of one's own country. Professor Russell in adopting this view takes what might almost be called the American attitude, the attitude which explains the Monroe Doctrine and the giving of autonomy to Cuba. Let it not be in this country that he be criticized for holding...
...program has been arranged as follows: "A Day in Havana," Luis Alexander Baralt, Jr., 2G., of Havana, Cuba; "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan Poe), Manuel Matienzo 1L., of San Juan, Porto Rico; Song, "Vittoria mio con carissimi," V. B. Kellett '18, of Hopedale; "African Democracy," Plenyono Gbe Wolo '17, of Grandben, Liberia; "Scotch Poems," George Mair '16, of Jamaica Plain, formerly of Scotland; Japanese Legerdemain, Takaharu Takamatau, Gr. Dv., of Murotsu, Yamaguchiken, Japan; "Lyrics of Love and Life" (Rabindravath Tagore), Sowendra Chandra Deb Barman 1G., of Tipperah, India; Songs, "Gerodemos" (Old Demos--the Klepht), and "Thymoume Panta to Bradia...
...night is an annual event at each of the 33 colleges in America where there are chapters of the Cosmopolitan Club. Extensive preparations have been made for the entertainment of men in the University who are natives of foreign lands. Among the entertainers are representatives of eight different lands,--Cuba, Porto Rico, the United States, Liberia, Scotland, Japan, India, and Greece...
...country at the present time. The University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1889. In 1886 he became an assistant surgeon in the United States Army. In 1899 he was appointed brigadier-general of the Army, and in the same year he was made military governor of Cuba. He received his present rank four years later. In 1910 he was made chief of staff and, in 1914, additional honor was tendered him when he was placed in full charge of the Department of the East...