Word: blues
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Memorial Hall the same hours will be in force that are observed for meals on Sundays. The hours for meals at Randall Hall will be regulated by the number of men who sign the blue-books...
...whereas the first two Princeton speeches were entirely set and made no attempt to meet the affirmative's arguments. The Harvard stand was that the conditions justified interference, that England had the right to interfere and that her methods of interference were justifiable. But Princeton showed conclusively from the blue-books that the conditions which were attached to the franchise offered the Uitlanders were not such as to warrant hostilities between England and the Transvaal. In the rebuttals, the teams showed equal strength...
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...
Photographs of the shower will be taken by the Harvard Observatories at Cambridge and Blue Hill, and by Professor Upton of Brown University who is co-operating with Professor Pickering. The idea of these three photographic stations is to give a parallax so as to see how high the meteor is from the earth's surface when it appears and disappears...
...Blue-books will be placed on the bulletin boards at Memorial and University Hall, at the CRIMSON office and at Leavitt's and Sanborn's this morning. It is necessary that men sign today or tomorrow if they wish to be included in the list. The dinner will probably be held at Music Hall, Boston. Price of tickets...