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...Italian humanists--the scholars of the Renaissance--by taking his audience in an imaginary journey through the principal Italian cities of the fifteenth century. Leaving Florence we enter Venice, the portal through which Greek literature passed from the East to the West, and crossing back to the mainland, we proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones of Livy. From here we turn southward...
...course, which was 6 1-4 miles in length, led from the centre of the athletic field at Travers Island over a causeway to the mainland, through the Pelham Manor woods towards New Rochelle, and then back by the shore road. This circuit was covered three times and was provided with a number of jumps and ditches, the final 300 yards being run on a cinder path...
...energy to making of itself the greatest industrial nation of the world. The resolution of the a affirmative means that the United States shall give up its priceless isolation and allow Europe not only coaling stations but great bases of operation from which may be attacked our mainland, Porto Rico and the Panama Canal. It means too that we shall expose ourselves to all the nagging disputes, the friction and diplomatic entanglements which never fail to arise between neighboring states. All this, and the burden which it necessitates, is a very serious menace to the welfare of the United States...
...dangerous to the United States. Ever since its birth as a nation the United States has been surrounded cast, south and north, by the American possessions of European powers, and her interests have not been in danger. The gentleman has wisely overlooked in his argument any danger to our mainland. He has realized that there could be none. Venezuela is 2,000 miles from New Orleans. The Rio Grande of the South and the Sao Francisco of Brazil are twice as far from the United States, as are the rivers Elbe and Weiser of Germany. The interests of the United...
...Harriman. The specimen is a Haida pole, 25 feet in length and is one of five carried away recently from Cape Fox Village by the Harriman Scientific Expedition. The pole was obtained for the Peabody Museum by Mr. Charles Palache. Cape Fox Village, which is on the mainland about 50 miles above the southern boundary of Alaska, was abandoned by the Indians twenty-five years...