Word: meant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bruce opened his speech by refuting Weston's three main arguments. To his first statement that England should have accepted the Boer proposals of the nineteenth and twenty-first of August, Bruce replied by saying that the acceptance of these proposals would have meant the giving up of all future international rights. In the convention at Pretoria suzerainty and independent local government were granted together. The Transvaal was not entirely independent, because England had power to make treaties and England was justified in interfering, because the articles stipulated in the convention of 1884 had been broken...
...fact his colleague had brought out, that interference was necessary in the Transvaal and that it was England's right to interfere. The affirmative believed that the best method to settle the so-called grievances was the grant of an adequate franchise to the Uitlanders. Such a franchise meant security, strength and prosperity for the South African Republic itself. The grievances of the Uitlanders might well be summed up in the phrase "in equality of rights." Examples of this subversion of all interests in favor of the Boers were that only Boer children were allowed in the schools and that...
...which all matters pertaining to the department interested were discussed. As a meeting of all the faculty members of the university at once, however, was out of the question, the president was forced to meet each faculty in turn, and discuss the affairs relating to its department. This meant a great waste of time on the president's part, and tended to make the various departments grow farther apart, rather than closer together. One of the first steps taken by President Hadley was to bring about such a change that all departments might profit equally, and, at the same time...
...other three main contributions, H. W. Foote '97, discusses "The Significance of the International Meet," and shows, in a truly sportsmanlike fashion, just what was meant and brought about by the contest between the Harvard-Yale athletes and those of Oxford and Cambridge. "The Madness of Robert Martin," by R. C. Bolling '00, is hardly one of the writer's best stories. The phrases are now and then a little too robust, sometimes too reminiscent of the interminable Kipling; and though one can understand Martin's rebellion against society, his reconciliation seems rather abrupt, rather arbitrary. Still, the story runs...
...good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth and the first duty of salt is to be salty. Harvard men are men of privilege whose education and training call them to active duty in the seasoning, the cleansing, the saving of the world...