Word: british
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evidently not intended for political discussion, much less for discussion of the affairs of foreign countries. Such matters sometimes, however, although they have no direct collegiate connection, have so deep a human interest that no paper, even a college daily is inappropriate of their presentation. I feel that the British treatment of the Boers is one of the questions which is, or should be, of universal interest. The situation as revealed in successive official British reports is simply appalling, and ought to be presented to this country so as to command wider attention than has yet been given...
...unfortunate individual in France had been misjudged. One man had been mistreated and the whole French people were therefore denounced as degenerates. Many good Americans (even the Boston school board, I am told) threatened to boycott the Exposition. In South Africa today the mismanagement and indifference of the British government are responsible not merely for one man's misfortune, but for the death of several thousand women and children every month and for an incalculable measure of suffering...
...seeing their wives and children in a starving condition, would be driven to submission. Even in England this policy was so bitterly denounced that it had finally to be abandoned. The policy of extermination, however, whether the result of deliberation or indifference, has been continued. The mortality in the British concentration camps during the last seven months according to official British reports outclasses anything of the sort ever reported in Cuba. During three months more than 15,000 of the women and children so confined have succumbed. This means a death rate of over 2 per cent per month...
...think of but one way. As the hostility of Europeons to the British policy has grown more bitter, British public opinion has grown more and more sensitive to criticism from this country. Every endeavor has been made to conciliate us and to purchase our acquiesence. The repeal of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is one example, and another is the unnecessary announcement of yesterday of the British government concerning the services which it claims to have rendered to the United States at the beginning of the Spanish...
...propose to contrast minutely the British with the American athletes or to discuss at length their different modes of training. The Americans certainly take great pains in this respect, and work out their methods with mechanical precision, rather too mechanical, perhaps, if it be true as I am told that some men avoid being selected to represent their university in athletic competition on account of the many pleasures which they would have to give up and the laborious training which they would have to undergo. Possibly we train too little, they train too much. The climate no doubt...