Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hill, who spoke first in rebuttal for Princeton, asked the affirmative to reconcile the peaceful effect of the Owen's claims with the conditions existing at the present day. England not only laid claims to suzerainty, but took action in accordance with these claims, when she refused to accept arbitration, alleging that she had suzerainty. The Boers acceded to England's demands on Aug. 19-21, on condition that England merely kept her promises, made in the convention of 1884. The Boers would have acceded to the English claims, which the affirmative maintain, would have brought peace and prosperity...
Weston opened by defining suzerainty as the general right of one nation to interfere in the internal affairs of another nation over which the right exists. In this controversy, the negotiations hinged on suzerainty and not on international law. England refused to accept specific reforms and the question came down to one of franchise. The Transvaal asked England to stand by her statesmen and courts, whose opinions were that suzerainty did not exist. England's magnanimity had been tried and found warning. She never claimed that the conventions have been broken nor would she accept the remedies of grievances because...
...take hold and help in whatever way we can. A great deal of money must still be raised; and, if we expect the graduates to contribute, we must first prove that this no momentary burst of enthusiasm, but that we are interested heart and soul, and that we accept as the greatest good fortune, the opportunity that is at last offered us to begin the work. The University Club has now become a personal matter with every resident member of the University. The least we can do is give the graduates such an enthusiastic guarantee of our wishes that there...
...speak to one part of the house. In the selection of judges, a list of twenty will be submitted together with the question, six weeks before the debate. Two weeks later nine names, in order of preference, will be returned. Of these nine the first three in order who accept will be chosen to judge the debate...
Yale of course believes in faculty coaching, yet she was willing to rule out all but undergraduate coachers. Princeton does not wish to stand as an advocate of faculty coaching, but is compelled either to accept that or depend entirely upon undergraduates, because she has no resident graduates upon whom she can call...