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Professor Macvane gave his second lecture on the Guiana Boundary Question last evening in the Fogg Museum. He began by outlining the various claims made by the Spanish and Dutch, and their successors, the Venezuelan Republic and the British, showing that the early Spanish claims had been much overdrawn, as shown by the actual Dutch occupations. He then examined the investigations of these claims made since 1841, and the various dividing lines proposed. The famous Schomburgk line was surveyed merely for a basis of negotiations and was not considered as final. The records seem to show that for the most...
Though nothing has recently been made public concerning the University Club project, the graduates interested in the plan have not been idle, and the canvass of opinion in the various Harvard clubs has progressed rapidly. It is very gratifying to see with what unanimity the members of the New York club have backed up the plan. Now that the two largest graduate clubs in the East have announced themselves as heartily in favor of a University Club, there can be but little doubt that the project will be carried through successfully...
...second speaker for Princeton was R. M. McElroy '96. Reminding the audience that his colleague had already shown how the government was in no way suited to issue legal tender notes, he went on to point out various other reasons for retiring them. He said that their presence continually threaten the financial situation of the country. Confidence is the basis of all financial success. We have $1,000,000,000 of notes resting on a nominal gold reserve of $1,000,000, which may at any time sink lower. The depletion of the gold reserve takes away foreign confidence with...
...interested in debating. He has, like Youngman, shown great perseverance, and obtained much valuable experience in trying for 'varsity debates. In '92, at the beginning of the Yale debates, Warren was the only freshman chosen among the twelve charter members of the reorganized Union. Since then he has held various offices in the club, and is now president. He represented the Union in last year's inter club debate...
Professor Macvane then quoted at some length from the writings of various men of different nationalities on the subject. He showed the many difficulties which will beset the United States commission on account of the great differences in spelling the names of important places and rivers by various authors. All in all, he thought the commissioners would find, when they began to investigate, that they had no easy task...