Word: war
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...Committee on Naval Affairs in the United States Senate has officially approved of the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to give to Harvard University the Nordenfeldt gun, the set of colors and the silver loving cup presented to the cruiser "Harvard" at the beginning of the war with Spain by graduates and undergraduates of the University. The bill has also met the approval of Secretary Long and will probably be acted upon within a few days...
Your correspondent thinks we should take an active step because we intervened in Cuba. This assumes that our intervention in Cuba was perfectly justifiable, and that the situation in South Africa is parallel to that in Cuba before the war. The first is open to argument and the second needs more facts than we are now able to get, due to the "inconspicuous way" in which the press publishes South African news. Occasionally we hear that which leads us to think that the Spanish policy in Cuba was not so yellow as printed and it may be that the present...
...Passing over the propriety of such a remedy, I am not sure that "every endeavor has been made to conciliate us and to purchase our acquiescence." The Clayton-Bulwer treaty may have been repealed to strengthen an Anglo-Saxon understanding, but hardly to purchase our acquiescence in a war policy pursued on a continent to which, happily, the Monroe Doctrine does not extend. The announcement in Parliament the other day that England alone had sided with us in the Spanish war was made not to offset any rising collegiate feeling in America, but, it is presumed, as an effort...
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 23. -- The Sophomore debating team defeated the team from the sophomore and freshman classes of Brown University in a debate this evening on the question: "Resolved, That the present policy of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of the Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team supported the negative, and won through presenting a more logical case, and through superior rebuttal. The Brown debaters were somewhat nervous in rebuttal and failed to meet several of Harvard's arguments, while the chief strength of the Harvard...
...team from the Sophomore class will debate a team from the sophomore and freshman classes of Brown university in Sayles Memorial Hall, Providence, this evening at 8 o'clock, on the question: "Resolved, That the present policy of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of the Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team, which will support the negative, is composed of D. A. McCabe, E. W. Baker, J. N. Johnson, and W. Badt alternate. The Brown team is composed of Messrs. Boone '04, Martin '04, Hawkins '05, and Meader...