Word: settlement
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...chief cause of the War of 1812 was England's refusal to recognize the right of her subjects to become American citizens and the consequent claim of the right to impress American seamen of British origin into the English navy. The negotiations following this war led to no definite settlement of the question, nor did the discussion between Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton...
...then private secretary to Charles Summer '30 until he began practicing law in New York in 1868. Later he became junior partner of the law firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman. In 1871 he published a book "The National and Private Alabama Claims and Their Final and Amicable Settlement," the material of which he gathered from Charles Sumner. President Grant the following year appointed him solicitor for the United States before the Geneva Arbitration Tribunal. Last April, Governor Roosevelt appointed him a member of the Greater New York Charter Revision Committee...
Hereafter, the finance of the settlement and its general direction will be under the following committee: Professor J. H. Ropes '89, chairman; Robert A. Woods, of the South End House; Robert U. Walker, Rector of the East Cambridge Episcopal Church; and Reginald C. Robbins...
...nowhere can a clearer insight be had into the history of the action constantly taking place between sea and land. A little thought will show that natural or geological causes have a great influence on the action of man himself. Why, for example, did the Pilgrims place their settlement and their college in so flat and uninteresting a spot as Cambridge? Simply because elsewhere the land was so covered with glacial stones that the farmers had to build walls to get rid of them. In a similar manner, the geological formation of Massachusetts Bay made possible the fisheries which made...
After the settlement of the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, affairs rapidly went from bad to worse. A harsh rule, combined with slavery and forced labor, soon drove out many of the Dutch inhabitants, who worked northward and finally settled down in the Transvaal. A large French Huguenot element had come in at this time, and as a result nearly two thirds of the Boers today are of French descent...