Word: lords
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...gave the Transvaal the status of an 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...
These lectures were founded by the late Lord Gifford, judge in the high court of justice in Scotland, who gave 80,000 pounds at his death to the Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Saint Andrews, in order that they might arrive at a clearer conception of natural religion. The lectures, last year, were very successful and are now being printed. The first half, under the title of "The World and the Individual," by Professor Royce, will appear in a few days and will be used in his courses. The subjects of the lectures are always the same, but different...
Last night at Appleton Chapel, Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham of New Bedford, preached from the texts "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread," and "Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water." The first shows the temptation every man has to show his own power; the second, that true power lies not in its mere possession, but in the ability to impart it to others...
Among the winners of the Newdigate prizes have been a number of famous men. In 1812, Henry Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize...
...Chapel services last night were conducted by Rev. E. E. Hale '39, who took as his text: "If thou shalt seek the Lord the God, thou shalt find...