Word: island
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last night Dr. Coolidge lectured in Sanders Theatre on the situation in Crete and the East. He gave in detail the history of the island, its geographical character and importance as a strategic point at the entrance to the AEgean. Its inhabitants in the main are Greeks, purer Hellenic than those on the mainland...
...time of the breaking up of the Roman Empire, Crete was conquered by the Arabs. In the Italian crusade of 1204 the island was sold to the Venetians, by whom it was held during the next four centuries. The Venetian rule was so oppressive that the Turks were hailed as liberators when they came and after a seige of twenty-five years conquered the island. With the decay of the Turkish empire during the 17th and 18th centuries the condition of Crete became steadily worse until at the beginning of this century the mismanagement of the Mohamedans became unbearable...
...arranged to row the New York A. C. sometime in June either at Travers Island or on the Charles...
...heretofore is one which will make the conditions more acceptable to Harvard than they otherwise would be, and practically just as much so to Yale; but as the University Boat Race will not be held at New London this year and as there are comparatively few boats on Long Island Sound owned by Harvard men, the Sound is not the most convenient place for the races from a Harvard point of view. It is evident therefore that, to win the cup which has been contested for in former years, those who own boats in the classes which are to race...
...Rhode Island...