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...refusing to consider any plans for temporary relief, those in charge of the building of the new quarters seem to be conspiring with equal equanimity to put off the completion of the work to the latest possible date. It seems as though the case was urgent enough to warrant the employment of extra men or extra time; but as a matter of fact, there seems to be no effort at all to hurry the work in either...
...present conflict in Cuba does not warrant intervention in behalf of the insurgents.- (a) Our treaty obligations with Spain: J. H. Haswell, Treaties and Conventions, pp. 1006 1041.- (b) Not a national movement for freedom.- (1) Number engaged in revolt is small.- (2) Of low character.- (3). Solid interests not in revolt: Harper's Weekly, 27 July, 1895, 31 Aug. 1895.- (c) Intervention not warranted on score of Spanish atrocities.- (1) Insurgents are the conspicuous offenders: Cosmopoltan, XIX. pp. 608-616; J. F. Clark on Cuba's Struggle for Freedom...
...send teams to the annual contest. It was also decided to ask Princeton, Cornell and Pennsylvania to take part. There is known to be a great deal of interest in fencing at Cornell, but it is not known whether there is enough interest in the other two colleges to warrant their sending teams. No definite answer to any of the invitations has yet been received by the Harvard Fencing Club...
...special oratorical powers, and so gives promise of becoming a real force as a public speaker; and he is to have the benefit of the scholarship for one or both of the last two years of his college course, as his attainments and character shall warrant. If for any reason this scholarship should become vacant during the period for which it is awarded, we would prefer that it should go to some other person in the same class...
...sixty students the opportunity to earn some what less than twenty dollars a month toward their support through college. Looked at in this light alone, the scheme has some merit, though it is very doubtful whether there will be any response to President Lakin's communication sufficiently general to warrant serious consideration of the change by the board of directors...