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...days when an optimistic census had declared that there were only some 8% of illiterates in the whole vast area. English commissions were satisfied that this country had a very dangerous competitor in scholarship, in science, in general liberal education across the Atlantic." Then came the draft report that 25% of the drafted men were illiterate. And the British breathed more freely...
...Another reason why I object to the proposed scheme is that the St. Lawrence route, even when improved, would not be feasible for ocean-going ships. The channels proposed by the Joint Commission are not of a depth to accommodate vessels of a draft which can be navigated economically. Specially strengthened ships must be constructed to navigate the St. Lawrence in safety. The damages from Icebergs, tides, and fogs are so great and losses so frequent that the Maritime Insurance rate is heavy enough to be a serious handicap. Moreover the delays in the restricted channels of the river would...
...underlying film of distrust was swept aside in the wake of the great ovation accorded Secretary Hughes when the latter proposed concrete measures for the immediate scrapping of naval forces, how the assembled plenipotentiaries were engaged for three months in searching consideration of the Treaty, and how the final draft agreed in every essential with the original Hughes document...
Facsimiles of the letter to Mrs. Bixby, and the original draft of Lincolon's Thanksgiving Proclamation for 1863, are also shown with a letter to Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln '64, then in his Senior year...
...Wednesday of this week President Lowell was elected to succeed Chief Justice William H. Taft as president of the League to Enforce Peace. He was also appointed chairman of a committee to draft resolutions expressing the League's appreciation of Chief Justice Taft's efforts in its behalf...