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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Huguenots from France and lived by cattle raising. Cape Colony was in a flourishing condition 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...
Lockers may be procured by applying at the office of the Locker Building on payment of $1.75. Those men who had lockers last fall and who intend to practice with the baseball squad will have to pay for a second locker unless they can show a card certifying that they have already paid for the use of a locker for the year ending June...
...husband. The young couple also has the misfortune to occupy an apartment directly above that of the senator; and accordingly Agathe, who has been brought up to think as her father does, spends most of her time with her parents. Whenever the young husband, Mittelbach, offers to pay any little attention to his wife, the parents interfere. In short, Mittelbach's home is not his own. At the end of two years, Mittelbach has become meek and yields to every whim of his parents-in-law. The strain has worn on his nerves, so that he is very near...
...proposed to raise twenty thousand dollars by subscription among Harvard graduates in order to pay for the land and construction of the new course...
...away ponds, and on the other, excluded from the College rinks, is very large. If the expense is larger than the subscription of one dollar apiece assessed last year, why could not the amount be made two dollars apiece; or why should not the Athletic Association pay part? For a large number of men skating is the only form of outdoor sport (skating other than hockey, that is) open since the number of men indulging in training for the track team is comparatively small. Why may these men not have a rink, or, at least, be allowed...