Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Weston, the first Princeton speaker, first referred to the official despatches made in the blue books; that any alien, resident for five years in the Transvaal should have full political rights; that Johannesburg should be admitted to the legislature, and that the English language as well as the Dutch should be used in the legislature. Consular representation between the Transvaal and the European states gave the Transvaal the status of an independent state. At the convention at London in 1884 the word "suzerainty" was omitted and thus it became a known fact that the Transvaal was independent. The drafter...
...boys in the Philippines are weeks away from home, even when their discharge is granted. Their surroundings are entirely alien. They are among a people who speak a strange tongue, whose sympathies are not with them and possibly never can be, so great is the difference between the Asiatic and the citizen of the United States. Homesickness, which the medical authorities have dignified as a distinct disease under the title of nostalgia, must affect hundreds of the soldiers in its most acute form. If the people at home will send the boys something to remind them that they...
...three shorter articles, "Sans Adieu," by T. S. Hardy '99, is easily the best. This sketch deals intelligently and feelingly with the topic about which ninety-five per cent. of modern French novels are written. R. C. Bolling 1900, the author of "In Alien Earth," has proved that a short story may be on the subject of water-rotted corpses without being essentially morbid. Somehow or other "The Disappointment of Lord Hartleigh," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, with all its facility, fails to interest...
Destitute Alien (The), in Great Britain. By Arnold White and others...
Destitute Alien (The), in Great Britain. By Arnold White and others...