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...includes a trunk line of 597 miles, with 58 miles of sidings in Guatemala and Salvador. It is planned to construct about 100 miles of new roads from Zacapa to Santa Ava, Guatemala, and to extend the lines to connect with properties of American corporations. With the 100-mile gap completed, the road will furnish a direct route from the east coast across Central America to Touseca Bay on the Pacific shore, where the U. S. Government already has concessions for the establishment of a naval base, to protect the Pacific end of the Panama Canal...
Accordingly, the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient was organized in 1901, capitalized at $50,000,000. Its line runs from Wichita, Kan., to Alpine, Tex; then there is a gap of unfinished line to Falomir, whence the road proceeds through Chihuahua to Sanchez; after another gap, it begins again at Fuerte and ends at its Pacific terminal at Topolobampo...
...consistently bracketed will be dropped for good. There are four new courses in the graduate's group, but none in the middle group. The changes there have been brought about by bringing two courses down from the graduates' group, by combining two half courses, and by filling in a gap by the use of two half courses in Comparative Literature...
This is not as unfortunate as it sounds, however, for after all the material is of artistic rather than scientific value. What has been found merely fills a small gap in the history of a well known period, and the objects removed are just as well off in Cairo as in London...
...Keir continued, "It would be next to impossible to transform Harvard into a group of English Colleges. The expense would be tremendous, and I'm not sure that I advocate the change; but if the gap was not made too wide it might be well for Harvard to emulate Oxford in many respects...