Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual dinner of the junior class was held last evening at the Revere House and proved a thoroughly enjoyable affair. Soon after seven o'clock about one hundred and twenty-five members of '93 sat down to an eight-course dinner which was served in the large dining room of the hotel on the first floor. B. W. Trafford, the president of the class, presided, and shortly before dessert was brought on, he introduced the toast-master of the evening, J. A. Wilder. Mr. Wilder made a short speech in his official capacity and then introduced the poet...
...every Harvard man who is interested in, or desirous of information about, our recent relations with Chile. In particular, Dr. Snow dwells upon those matters of dispute which involve some of the nicer points of international law. He comes to the general conclusion that "the history of this affair, as well as that of our controversy with Chili in 1881, calls for serious reflection upon the position of our executive department in regard to foreign relations. For the executive may have a policy - not approved by Congress - which he may carry out in secret to a point where the nation...
...tennis tournament for the national tropical championship will begin at St. Augustine March 23. In spite of the absence of champion O. S. Campbell in Europe the affair will be of increasing interest, as more high-class experts than ever before are to compete. Among those expected being Messrs. V. G. Hall and Edward W. Hall of New York; F. H. Hovey the veteran champion of Harvard College and several English cracks, who will lend the affair an air of international importance...
...Upton, President of the Yale Union, was in Cambridge last Saturday evening to make arrangements for the second debate, to be held at New Haven about March 25th. An attempt will be made by both colleges to make this more of a university affair than the last; it is hoped that the best speakers from the two institutions may meet not only as members of the two Unions but as representatives of the best work in speaking done at Cambridge and New Haven. Both Unions are to have a competitive preliminary debate on the final subject when the representatives...
Although an apology has been sent and the affair is settled, it is worth while to consider whether any new principles have been developed in American diplomacy...