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...these discourteous actions he has gained political notoriety. But we feel certain that the bulk of Americans, Republicans and Democrats, respecting the dignity and unity of purpose of the nation, will repudiate his policy and will regret that the Senate has accepted from him a document of such doubtful origin...
From a start of seven volumes in 1723, the Harvard Law School Library has now more than 175,000 books in its possession. The Library is most complete and includes reports, digests, statutes, codes, and laws of American, British, Canadian, and British Colonial origin, as well as text books and treaties on American and English law. Roman, foreign, and international law are also well represented, and a great number of legislative journals and reports are included as well...
Dean Briggs offers us a suggestion to solve our perplexities by creating a Department of Athletics. Novel as the idea appears to many, it is, in reality, a very old one, revived in a certain measure, as is pointed out, by some of the Western colleges but tracing its origin to Grecian times, when gymnastics and the liberal arts had an equal part in a young man's training...
...been exchange lecturer at the University of Berlin and at the Sorbonne, accompanied the Taft party to the Philippines in 1905 and was the University delegate at the Pan-American Scientific Congress in Satiago, Chill, in 1908. He has written "The United States as a World Power," "The Origin of the Triple Alliance", and "The American Historical Review...
...dynamical and structural geology is taught principally by lectures, which are amply illustrated by lantern slides, diagrams, and numerous specimens on the lecturer's table. The subject deals with the chemical and mechanical wear and waste of the land, the actions of rivers, waves, glaciers, and wind, the origin and formation of mountains, plateaus, and valleys, the origin, actions, and effects of earth-quakes and volcanoes...