Word: british
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Several members of the University having expressed a desire to assist in relieving the distress of the Boer women and children confined in British concentration camps in South Africa, it has been decided to open a general subscription in their behalf. The money so collected will be forwarded according to the advice of the Rev. Herman van Broekhuizen, former pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Pretoria, who spoke at the Union last Wednesday evening. A letter from him has been promised stating the methods of distributing such relief funds, and it will be made public when received...
...Sargent announced at the Union entertainment last night that Eugen Sandow would present to the University a plaster statue of himself, cast from life. This cast, which is now on exhibition at the Washington street entrance to Keith's Theatre, was made at the request of the British Government and is especially remarkable as being the only instance of an exact reproduction in plaster of a living man. There are but two other copies of this statue in existence, one of which is in the British Museum and the other in Sandow's house in London...
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 23. -- The Sophomore debating team defeated the team from the sophomore and freshman classes of Brown University in a debate this evening on the question: "Resolved, That the present policy of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of the Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team supported the negative, and won through presenting a more logical case, and through superior rebuttal. The Brown debaters were somewhat nervous in rebuttal and failed to meet several of Harvard's arguments, while the chief strength of the Harvard...
...widespread protest in this country at the present moment against the practices of the British government might thus materially assist the efforts of fair-minded Englishmen like Lehman, just as two years ago the world wide protest against the French government helped Zola and Picquart. Can not Harvard men then give some more deliberate and formal expression to those opinions which twice within the past fortnight have so strikingly revealed themselves...
...team from the Sophomore class will debate a team from the sophomore and freshman classes of Brown university in Sayles Memorial Hall, Providence, this evening at 8 o'clock, on the question: "Resolved, That the present policy of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of the Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team, which will support the negative, is composed of D. A. McCabe, E. W. Baker, J. N. Johnson, and W. Badt alternate. The Brown team is composed of Messrs. Boone '04, Martin '04, Hawkins '05, and Meader...