Word: givings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...England's demands on Aug. 19-21, on condition that England merely kept her promises, made in the convention of 1884. The Boers would have acceded to the English claims, which the affirmative maintain, would have brought peace and prosperity to South Africa, on condition that England should give up her claims to suzerainty, according to the treaty of 1884, and their terms, had they been accepted, would have effectually prevented...
...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 to their country, yet did not give them even ordinary protection...
...Civil Service Reform Club will hold its first smoke talk Monday, at 7.30, in the Colonial Club. Professor E. H. Strobel will speak on "Our Diplomatic and Consular Service," and Professor S. M. Macvane will give a short talk on "The English Civil Service System." Five of these smoke talks will be held in the course of this year...
...Waterhouse 2G., assisted by Carl S. Oakman '00 and several others, is to give a song recital in Association Hall, Boston, Friday evening, December 15, at 8.15. The programme will include works of Brahms, Massenet, Dvorak, Chadwick and Foote...
...Copeland will give the fifth in his series of lectures for the benefit of the Prospect Union, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, in Sever 11. It will be on Dickens. Next Wednesday afternoon will be the reading from the same author. Tickets, fifty cents, may be obtained at the door...