Word: england
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Civil Service Reform Club, to be held in Sever 11 at 7.30 o'clock. Professor Hart will speak on the historical features of civil service reform in this country and on the present young man's interest in the work; Mr. Lowell, who has just returned from England after a year spent in the study of the English colonial system, will speak on the English methods and experiences; and Mr. Dana will tell about the actual machinery of the work in this country. All members of the University interested in the problems of good government are invited to attend, whether...
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...
Professor S. M. Macvane lectured in the Fogg Art Museum last night before a large audience on "England and the Transvaal." Professor Macvane took the point of view of an outsider, in order to consider the question with impartiality. He said in part...
...England's connection in South Africa began in 1875; up to that time South Africa had been a Dutch colony. In the early part of the nineteenth century, there was a good deal of trouble between England and the Dutch for the possession of the Cape. With the emancipation of the slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England...