The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

Du Bois to deliver his paper "Reconstruction and Its Benefits" to the AHA in New York. Finally in 1931 Hart presented a rough draft of the cyclopedia to Hagedorn. " From the beginning however the project was plagued with problems simply because Hart was very busy with many other commitments.

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