Word: south
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Exeter last night. The question was the same as that of the Princeton debate. The Harvard speakers, who were superior to their opponents in form, based their argument on England's moral right to intervene in the Transvaal because of her superior fitness to meet the peculiar conditions of South African government. For Exeter, R. R. Alexander, L. Grilk, and J. F. Dore maintained that England's intervention is not justifiable because she is prohibited from intervening by both convention and precedent. The rebuttal did not materially affect either case, but Exeter seemed quicker and more incisive than Harvard, until...
...Peters, one of the few great American explorers who have worked among the ruins of Babylon, will speak at 11 o'clock this morning in the Fogg Lecture Room on his recent work near Nippur, south east of Babylon. The discoveries made by Dr. Peters since 1889 have far eclipsed the efforts of the French archaeologists, Botta, Place and de Sarzec, and the Englishmen, Layard, Rassam and Smith...
Question: "Resolved, That Admiral Dewey was justified in deeding the house, presented to him by the Dewey home fund, to his wife." Principal Disputants.--Affirmative: G. W. South, G. O. Suppis, and P. b. Olney.--Negative: A. J. Hammerslough, L. P. Hill and J. P. Hogan...
...Worcester debate was held last night and resulted in the choice of the following team: C. H. Scovell, A. Black, H. P. Williams, and L.B. Hill, alternate. The contestants each spoke ten minutes on the subject, "Resolved, That the English claims in the present controversy with the South African Republic are justifiable." The judges were W. M. Chadbourne '00, E. Mayer '00 and S. B. Southworth...
Harvard Mining Club. Experiences of a Mine Manager in the South West during the Eighties. Mr. G. W. Rice. Rotch Building, 7.30 p.m. Open to all interested in Mining or Geology...