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beauty of the colonnade and largely increase the buildings 

 and resources of the institution. 



During my work upon the commission I learned to re 

 spect more and more the calm, steady, imperturbable char 

 acter of Mr. Cleveland. Of course the sensational press 

 howled continually, and the press which was considered 

 especially enlightened and which had steadily supported 

 him up to this period, was hardly less bitter ; but he per 

 severed. During the period taken by the commission for 

 its work, both the American and British peoples had time 

 for calm thought. Lord Salisbury, especially, had time 

 to think better of it ; and when he at last receded from his 

 former haughty position and accepted arbitration, Mr. 

 Cleveland and the State Department gained one of the 

 most honorable victories in the history of American di 

 plomacy. 



