Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...columns of a college paper are 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...
...wide attention, at least in this part of the country. Yet it is not more than four years since the front pages of our papers were covered with the accounts of Spanish atrocities in the concentration camps of Cuba, and public opinion insisted upon the cessation of such brutalities even at the cost of war. It is but little more than two years since press and pulpit and public were alike fervently aroused because one 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...
...herded together in camps like those established by General Weyler in Cuba. For a considerable time the families of those still in the field were given only half rations, with the idea that the men, 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...
...week or so ago, or who heard the applause which met Mr. Hammond's allusion to Majuba Hill Monday night. The question then suggests itself, cannot these feelings be made to count for something? Is there no way in which we can make some contribution, even though it be small, to the cause of these heroic Dutch...
...interclass series and was exciting throughout. The Juniors showed better team play and did some creditable work individually, but in general efficiency and speed the Seniors were superior. The softness of the ice prevented any great degree of accuracy. At the start the play was very even but toward the end of the first half the puck was forced well into the Juniors' territory and in the scrimmage that followed, Metcalf shot the goal. Chaffee and Noyes for the Seniors and Ward and Stillman for the Juniors were very effective...