Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Union meeting tonight Dr. Hendrik Muller, Diplomatic Envoy from the Orange Free State, and the Reverend Herman van Broekhuizen of Pretoria, will speak on the war in South Africa. Both speakers are native Boers and have an intimate knowledge of South African affairs. The Reverend Herman van Broekhuizen was a former pastor at Pretoria and has been with the Boer army in the field. Dr. Muller has acted in the capacity of Special Envoy to the European capitals during the Boer's struggle for freedom and has recently come to this country on a diplomatic mission to the government. Both...
...fact that Dr. Furness is to read at Sanders Theatre tonight, the regular entertainment has been postponed until tomorrow evening, when it is expected that Dr. Hendrik Muller, diplomatic representative of the Orange Free State, and the Reverend Herman von Broekhuizen of Pretoria, will speak on the war in South Africa...
...March which appears today consists mainly of short articles on a variety of subjects. The three contributions which may be excepted from this statement are Professor Hanus's "Graduate Testimony on the Elective System," which has been already reviewed in the CRIMSON; a list of additions to the Harvard "War Roll," and a first instalment of interesting extracts from the diary of Samuel Chandler 1775, entitled "Harvard on the Eve of the Revolution." The other articles include a review of Scudder's "Life of Lowell;" "William Wetmore Story," an appreciation by Professor Charles Eliot Norton; "Convocation Week," by Professor...
...Union was in deadly peril, and thousands of its young men were bleeding and dying for it. It is credibly reported that at a very critical moment the Queen of England said to her prime minister: 'My Lord, you must understand that I shall sign no paper which means war with the United States.' The grandson of that illustrious woman is sitting with us here...
Major Higginson extended to Prince Henry, as a holder of a Harvard degree and a Harvard man, the freedom of the Union. He welcomed the Prince as a representative of the Hohenzollerns, whose name in history has been illustrious in peace and war; as a brother of the emperor, "who is walking resolutely in the footsteps of his fathers;" as a grandson and son of the founders of the German Empire, and as admiral of the German navy. Major Higginson spoke of the debt America owes to Germany for her great figures in literature, for her great musicians...