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...author of a work published in 1903, entitled "Portraitures of Julius Caesar." The originals of these casts are scattered in museums all over Europe, so that never before has the opportunity been afforded to study the portraits side by side, and thus to approach a solution of the problem of the personal appearance of the great dictator. There will also be exhibited photographs of some of the other busts, as well as coins bearing Caesar's head...
...Democrats controlled one-third of the Senate, enough to defeat the measure. But the treaty was ratified and as a result the Philippines became American territory. Thus the Democratic party is equally responsible with the Republican for the annexation of the Philippines. There are three solutions to the Philippine problem. First, we can fit the islanders for statehood and admit them to the Union. This, however, is scarcely feasible. Secondly, we can hold them as subjects without constitutional rights. In the third place, we can endeavor to set up a government on American principles and leave it to the people...
Bishop Gailor, the first speaker, whose subject was "The South," said that in a century whose greatness lay in its discoveries, the greatest discovery of all was that of the nation itself, not as a mere collection of individuals, but in its national character. Every problem in national life is a moral question and therefore ultimately a religious problem. There can be no anthithesis between politics and religion because the nation is bound to the same Almighty as the individual. The great ideals, social and political, are the Christian ideals, not that others have not had ethical insight, but because...
Bishop Mackay-Smith then spoke on "The East." Its problems he said, were much the same as those of the rest of the country, but somewhat harder owing to the fact that here the separation between man and man socially is greater than in other parts of the country, and whatever hinders the approach of one man's heart to another's, tends to retard Christian civilization. A second tendency which adds to the difficulty of problems in the East is the mad rush of city life which is more acute here than in the West. A third problem...
World Today--"Boston's Solution of the Rapid Transit Problem," by F. W. Coburn '91; "The New Country Life," by P. H. Boynton '98; "The Great River: The Mississippi Valley in War," by J. K. Hosmer '55; "The Evolution of the Strawberry," by W. H. Burke M.'99; "Standardizing Railroad Time," by H. D. Jones...