Word: british
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Junior Wranglers. Debate. Assembly Room of Union, 8.15 p.m. Question: "Resolved, That the British cause in the present war is just." Affirmative, Blaikie's camp; negative, Hale's camp...
...fourth annual cable chess match between Oxford and Cambridge, and Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton, will be held today and tomorrow. The English team will play at the British Chess Club in London and the American team at the rooms of the Boston Athletic Association. The probable makeup of the English team is as follows: W. Grundy (O), H. F. Davidson (O), H. D. Roome (O), H. A. Webb (C), F. W. Clark (C), B. Golding-Brown (C), with H. Taylor (O) and H. Bateman (C) as substitutes. Following is the order in which the American team will play...
...steamer Amera, chartered from the British India Steam Navigation Company, carried the party for 1600 miles through the maze of coral islands of all sizes which compose the Maldive group. Professor Agassiz and his assistants spent over a month in studying the islands and in gathering their collections. Many new formations were discovered and some rare collections were made. The party took many deep sea soundings, studied the formation of atolls, and took a large number of valuable photographs. Professor Agassiz has shipped a valuable collection of coral formations to the University Museum. These specimens are expected to arrive soon...
During the past two weeks contributions amounting to $234.50 have been made to the Harvard fund for the relief of women and children confined in the British concentration camps. The committee has made arrangements to cable this sum early next week to Cape Town, where responsible persons will look to its transmission to those camps in which the suffering is greatest. In the meantime, contributions, however small, will be gladly acknowledged by R. Ernst, Russell 16; F. D. Roosevelt, Westmorly 27; W. P. Wharton, Randolph...
...Flint received a lieutenancy in the volunteer army. Later he served two years in the Philippines. Mr. Flint in his talk this evening will make a resume of the causes of the war against the Philippines and will discuss the methods of the campaign as compared with British campaigns in similar countries. Mr. Flint is at present writing the biography of the late John Fiske, the historian...