Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Migration of Graduate Students, The Status of American Students in Foreign Universities, The Prevention of Conflict in Thesis Subjects, The Relation of Graduate and Undergraduate Courses, The Lecture System in Graduate Instruction, Culture vs. Specialization in the Graduate School, Should the Ph.D. be a Teacher's Degree Only? The Value of Fellowships, Should the Minimum Time of Study for the Ph.D. be More Than Two Years? Should the Ph.D. be Given on Examination and Thesis Alone without Regard to Previous Work? Teaching as a Profession. The Scholar's Ideal, Papers will be limited to fifteen minutes; men speaking in discussion...
...Uitlander justice. She did not demand that he be given control of the government or even an equal share in its administration, but she asked that he be given a voice in the expenditure of taxes, and that measure of protection which every civilized power grants to foreign residents within its territory...
...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 of the constitution admitted that he had purposely left the word out. In January Lord Chamberlain himself declared the Transvaal a foreign state and said that it would be immoral to interfere in internal affairs in South Africa. He asserted that the Boers were independent except for the articles which had been stipulated in the London convention of 1884. However, in 1897, Secretary Chamberlain revived the claim of suzerainty. The Volksraad then...
...facts gave England the right to interfere. Even setting aside the special justification of England's claim, there still remains the broader, the firmer, the higher ground of the supreme law of mankind, the inalienable right of any international state to protect its citizens from injustice in a foreign land...
Mayer, the next on rebuttal for Harvard, called attention to the fact that during the whole debate the negative had not even defined suzerainty. As for this suzerainty, England has claimed no more than any other nation, that of protection to her subjects in a foreign land. The negative has not attempted to deny the presence of a civilizing power in the Transvaal, resulting from the presence of the English; and what is more, they admit that the grievances against the English are many. The people of the Transvaal, though they recognized the value of the English and invited them...