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Tomorrow night an order will be presented in the city council, requesting the mayor to petition the legislature for the passage of an act authorizing the state to tax certain real estate owned by the College and situated in Cambridge, and providing that the sums so received shall be paid to the city of Cambridge. In this manner the city government hopes to begin an agitation of the question that will soon result in distinct issues...
...Board of Overseers held yesterday morning, it was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes appointing James Atkins Noyes a member of the University Council, and also in electing Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Ph.D., Gray professor of systematic botany. A committee of three was appointed to act jointly with a committee of the Corporation to consider the subject of the franchise in voting for Overseers...
Assistant Professor A. C. Coolidge says: "I believe that the Uitlanders have had many causes of just complaint, that the policy of the Boers has often been short-sighted and that England is acting as any other great power would probably act in her place. I sympathize with the Boers because they are fighting heroically for their national existence and for the right to govern their own land. However mistaken they may have been in many of their acts, they have only acted in self defense. I am convinced that until almost the last moment hostilities could have been avoided...
...with the Boers as the weaker and struggling for independence, but in view of the great interest Great Britain has in South Africa and the evident desire on the part of the Boers to establish an independent republic as evinced in Kruger's policy since 1881, Great Britain is acting as any other nation would act under the circumstances. This is explained by the fact that the importance of the Dutch element in the British colonies would seriously endanger Great Britain's future possession of those colonies. The question is a racial one which can hardly be settled...