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...died in Hancock, N. H., last Tuesday at the advanced age of ninety-one years. He was educated in the Boston schools, and, after a course in the Lawrence Scientific School, received a practical working training in railway machine shops at Dover, N. H. He then went south, and, after some railroad work in Georgia, surveyed the line from Talahassee, Fla., to the east coast during the Seminole war. He was later called to Boston and given charge of building the Cochituate water works. His later years were passed in travel through Egypt with Ralph Waldo Emerson and he finally...
Occasional lectures and musicals will be given at the union during the year. On Wednesday, Mr. John Fiske will lecture on "Charles Lee, Soldier of Fortune." On November 22, Assistant Professor Coolidge will talk on the situation in South Africa...
...Princeton debate will be held this year on Dec. 16. The question will be, "Resolved, That the English claims in the controversy with the South African Republic are justifiable." As Harvard has chosen the subject, Princeton will have the choice of sides. Her option will be announced Nov. 12. The trial debates will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 7, Saturday, Nov. 11, and Thursday, Nov. 16. At the first trial, when twelve men will be chosen, speeches will be limited to five minutes. At the second trial there will be ten-minute speeches and six men will be chosen from...
This evening Professor Macvane will repeat, by special request, the lecture which he delivered last week on "England and the Transvaal." Beginning with an account of the past relations of the English and the Dutch colonists in South Africa, Professor Macvane will show the present condition of politics and society there, and explain the causes which have led up to the present war. The lecture will be delivered in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock...
England's connection in South Africa began in 1875; up to that time South Africa had been a Dutch colony. In the early part of the nineteenth century, there was a good deal of trouble between England and the Dutch for the possession of the Cape. With the emancipation of the slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England...