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Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., FRGS (October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924) was an American zoologist, public official, and writer on the Philippines. He was born at Thetford, Vermont, and educated at the University of Michigan (A.B., 1889). Worcester's involvement with the Philippines began in 1887 when he joined a scientific expedition to the region ...
The Schurman Commission, also known as the First Philippine Commission, was established by United States President William McKinley on January 20, 1899, and tasked to study the situation in the Philippines and make recommendations on how the U.S. should proceed after the sovereignty of the Philippines was ceded to the U.S. by Spain on December ...
Title page and frontispiece, Dean Worcester, The Philippines Past and Present (1914) Clapp is the subject of several works of art including a 1972 acrylic painting by National Artist Benedicto Cabrera titled Pit-a-pit's Metamorphosis.
The exact strength of the unit remains unknown, but Colonel Lucas' letters suggest he commanded an entire regiment. Dean C. Worcester estimates it to be composed of 6,330 men. General Otis, on the other hand, said that this force had been reported to him as being 10,000 men. The unit's mission before the war's outbreak was ambiguous.
Dean Conant Worcester [q] Sources: Journal of the Philippine Commission Being the First Session, October 16, 1912, to February 3, 1913, and A Special Session, February 6, 1913, to February 11, 1913, of the Third Philippine Legislature. Manila: Bureau of Printing. 1913.
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The Philippine Commission was the name of two bodies, both appointed by the president of the United States, to assist with governing the Philippines.. The First Philippine Commission, also known as the Schurman Commission, was appointed by President William McKinley on January 20, 1899 as a recommendatory body.
On January 23, 1909, the newspaper was sued for libel by Dean Conant Worcester, then-secretary of the interior of the Insular Government of the Philippines. [5] [3]: 426 Worcester felt he was alluded to by the description of someone who had "the characteristics of the vulture, the owl and the vampire."