Word: americans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most important events of 1898 were the Spanish American war, the death of Bismarck, and the calling of the Peace Conference. The first two had an important bearing on the last event. The war showed that America was destined to become an important factor in international affairs, while the death of Bismarck showed that his policy of preventing war, by being prepared for it, was about to come to an end. These two events led to the Peace Conference, called by the Czar...
...Frederick W. Holls of New York will deliver a lecture on the Conference at the Hague in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum, this evening at eight o'clock. Mr. Holls, as a member of the American delegation to the conference, played a very prominent part in bringing about the acceptance by the conference of the Anglo-American proposal for a permanent court of arbitration. The lecture will be open to the public...
...While no definite steps have yet been taken toward the arrangement of a return dual track meet between Yale and Harvard and the English universities, Oxford and Cambridge, it seems almost certain that the American universities will have an opportunity to retrieve next spring the defeat which they suffered in England last year. The Yale and Harvard undergraduate managements are now in communication on the subject, and it is probable that a challenge will soon be sent, as the initiative must be taken by Harvard and Yale, the defeated contestants. The meet would of course be held on this side...
...these preliminary arrangements are brought about between the American universities the details will be put in the hands of a graduate committee similar to that of last year, consisting of two graduates from both Yale and Harvard, who will be selected by the managers and captains of the two track teams. They would in all probability be the same men who acted in that capacity so admirably last year...
...preliminary debates have been held in the American Whig and the Cliosophic Literary Societies to decide upon the four men to represent each Hall in the Inter-Hall debate to be held Friday, Nov. 17. From these men a team of six will be chosen for the debate with Harvard. The Spencer Trask prize of fifty dollars will be given to the man doing the best work in these preliminary debates...