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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Macvane began with the history of the disputed territory from the time that Spain claimed Guiana. It is not international law, the lecturer said, that discovery gives claim to possession. The claims of Spain in Guiana were not repeated by other European countries since they were not backed up by actual possession. Guiana changed hands many times...
...classified them. There is a difference of opinion in almost all of them which were published before 1814, when the Dutch still had a claim on the territory. About sixteen of the most reliable map makers put the boundary at Cape Nassau. One of our secretaries of state has said that this is a simple matter of historical evidence, but it is not a subject on which conclusive evidence is easy to be obtained. The map evidence on the disputed boundary is unsatisfactory, except, of course, that of the men who were on the spot...
...England has to look after the welfare of her colonists. It is her rule, which binds the colonies to her. The Venezuelans have never offered fair arbitration. Lord Salisbury said that he would not put under foreign arbitration the territory which has been for so long a time occupied by Englishmen, and previously by Dutch. He does not say "We will not arbitrate anything within the Schomburgk line...
...Eliot has done for the University not only in the actual acquisition of resources both financial and educational during his administration, but in his exemplification of what the university president is to be for at least a long time to come, would be to repeat what was so feelingly said and many times repeated a year and a half ago, at the occasion of his twenty-fifth anniversary as President of Harvard. It is certainly the duty of every undergraduate to acquaint himself so far as he can with the history of the University's development and the nature...
...sale today. The present volume is edited by Perley L. Horne, Gr., and Henry J. Wilder '97. It is in general arranged after the pattern of previous years. The volume however, contains fifty-two pages more than last year's and twenty new organizations. In general it may be said that the present volume is unusually free from mistakes and of more than usual interest...