Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...condition of affairs; Berlin asked for more specific charges. The trouble quickly became complicated by the interference of the two home governments and the mistakes of M. Delcasse, the French minister of foreign affairs. Emperor William's inflammatory speech in Tangier still further aroused public opinion, so that the prospect of immediate war led Germany to begin actual preparations. At this point, Germany came to her senses, and a request for a conference was sent to France. France insisted on her special privileges in Morocco, which were of long standing, and in the conference which finally settled the difficulty these...
...annual indoor handicap meet under the auspices of the Cambridgeport Gymnasium Association will be held on Monday, January 27, in the Cambridgeport Gymnasium, corner of Harvard and Prospect streets. The open events will be a 20-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 880-yard run, mile run, high jump, and 16 pound shot-put. Relay races, four men to run on each team, will also be arranged to suit the wishes of contestants. Liberal handicaps will be made by Frank Magrath, the official handicapper of the Boston Athletic Association. Last year Harvard won three first places, two seconds, and one third...
...Prospect Union, which is conducted by members of the University, will begin its sixteenth annual session on Monday, October 14. The classes will meet one or two evenings a week until May, and courses will be given in Algebra, Arithmetic, Bookkeeping, Chemistry, Economics, Commercial Law, Composition and Geography. With the exception of the special civil service course, and the stenography and typewriting courses, all the instruction is given by students or instructors of the University. In addition to the regular program of classes, there will be occasional lectures by prominent speakers on current topics, with music on Sunday afternoons during...
...description of the new "Department of Social Ethics" perhaps a more illuminating illustration could have been found: for instance a view of the sober, student philanthropist visiting a saloon, or sleeping with a tramp--which he is described as doing--would bring the work home to us as the prospect of the tidy social ethics library does not. Mr. Curtis in "Analysis" tries to wheedle the ambitious into English 18. The remaining two articles are a reasonable view of the football outlook by Mr. Watts, and a story. The editors ought of course to be very much more careful...
...Victoria Park. But suddenly, in 1901, he was raised to a position second in importance only to the archbishoprics of Canterbury and York. His notification came while he was on his way to a big workingmen's meeting in the East, End, and he was more disappointed at the prospect of living in stately Fulham Palace than elated over his appointment. Since he became Bishop of London he has gained the love and respect of all London, the greatest...