Word: london
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conference held Saturday afternoon in New Haven it was decided to hold the boat races with Yale at New London on Thursday, June 26. The University four oar race will come first, and the Freshman race next, both over a two-mile course; and the University eight-oar last, over a four-mile course. W. H. Meikleham of Columbia has been appointed referee of the races, and Julian W. Curtiss, of New York, chairman of the committee on arrangements...
...popular writer of sensational fiction. Will you kindly allow me the opportunity of calling attention to a less advertised work upon the same subject by a distinguished Englishman, who is not only a literary man, but also a scholar. I refer to Mr. John A. Hobson, lecturer in the London School of Economics, and author of several well-known books upon economic theory and history, which are regularly used in our economic courses. Mr. Hobson's "The War in South Africa: its Causes and Effects," was written after a sojourn of several months in South Africa, and, in the opinion...
...cent book is wanted, I would advise, at least as a healthful antidote for the pamphlet suggested by your correspondent, the American edition of "Peace or War in South Africa," by A. M. S. Methuen, the senior member of the London publishing house of that name. Even Mr. Doyle himself pronounces this book "able and moderate." VERITAS...
...telegram was received yesterday afternoon at the Gymnasium from Mr. Gavin, representative in New York of the National Sporting Club of London, suggesting that Harvard and Yale send representatives to England to box with representatives from Oxford and Cambridge at the Coronation...
...when it was seized by the English in 1775, during the war between England and Holland. The Boers were soon in trouble with the English. England demanded the abolition of slavery and agreed to pay an indemnity to the Boers for their loss. The indemnity was made payable in London, and many of the burghers were therefore unable to collect it. The English gave the Boers no protection from native tribes, and when the Boers punished them for cattle stealing and marauding the English objected. The Boers bought land in the wilderness and emigrated there, establishing Natal and the Orange...