Word: southern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...factors: first, the maritime interests of some of the Latin-American republics, which will tend to draw those countries into the war sooner or later in the same manner that the United States now finds itself involved; second, the presence of certain natural resources and conditions in the southern republics which are peculiarly valuable for belligerent preparation...
This at once brings up the much discussed question of the so-called German peril in Brazil. Although no official figures are available as to the size of the German colonies in southern Brazil, it has recently been estimated by impartial investigators that the Teutonic population is between 250,000 and 300,000, on the face of it an ominous figure. But the fact that the colonies have no access to the outside world except by rail-roads controlled by French and English capital goes far towards nullifying the danger. Add to this the fact that the Germans are surrounded...
...some colleges who will not suspend athletics, but no institution would so cling to their contract as to demand a payment of the guarantee under circumstances like the present. Financially, the year's receipts would be much larger than the expenditures, for the expenses of crew and the various Southern trips would be done away with, and the largest receipt item, the returns from football, is already...
ITHACA, N. Y., April 3.--The Cornell Athletic Association decided tonight that all intercollegiate athletics will be canceled if war is declared. The Southern trips, scheduled to begin tomorrow, of the baseball and lacrosse teams and practice for the crew squad during vacation are definitely canceled. All athletic training is abandoned until the nation acts...
...annual prize of $100 is awarded, from a bequest of Addison Brown '52, late judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, for the best essay by a student in the Law School on some designated subject of maritime or private international law, under prescribed regulations...