Word: transvaal
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...Senior Wranglers will meet tonight, instead of Friday night, at 7 in Conant 40. The question will be: "Resolved, That the claims of Great Britain in the Transvaal are justified." Whitney's side has the affirmative and Seasongood's the negative...
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...
...Lecture. England and the Transvaal. (Repeated by request.) Professor Macvane. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Lecture. England and the Transvaal. (Repeated by request.) Professor Macvane. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when an armed force was sent into the Transvaal to suppress an uprising of the Zulus, and took possession of the Boer government. Although the townspeople wished to be annexed to England when the Boers were driven out in 1878, the Boer farmers objected, and on being refused independence by Gladstone, revolted, but after defeating the English at Majuba...