Word: mainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bruce opened his speech by refuting Weston's three main arguments. To his first statement that England should have accepted the Boer proposals of the nineteenth and twenty-first of August, Bruce replied by saying that the acceptance of these proposals would have meant the giving up of all future international rights. In the convention at Pretoria suzerainty and independent local government were granted together. The Transvaal was not entirely independent, because England had power to make treaties and England was justified in interfering, because the articles stipulated in the convention of 1884 had been broken...
...general design provides an entrance hall of large dimensions, with an assembly room capable of seating 1,000 people, directly opposite the entrance door. On each side of the entrance hall can be located offices and a coat-room. The assembly room constitutes the main feature of the central structure...
...will complete the enclosed "Triangle" of which the existing buildings forms two sides. They are to be in continuous, but non-connecting cottages, after the plan of Walter Hastings Hall, and will provide 175 additional rooms for students. They are to be ready for occupancy in September, 1900. The main entrance to the dormitory Triangle will be formed by the War Memorial Tower, to be erected in memory of students and alumni of the university who fell in the war with Spain...
...meeting will be open only to invited guests, who will be, in the main, persons mentioned in the pamphlet. It will, of course, be a College, not a University affair, for of all the scholarships and prizes, the Bowdoin prizes, and one or two others alone, may be competed for by men not in the College. Many men who have won the various prizes and scholarships in the past are now prominent, so that the invited guests will undoubtedly include many distinguished persons...
...second story, directly over the main hall, is a large room which will be used for a gymnasium and for the rowing machines. The trophies will also be put in it. To the west of this room will be the lockers and to the east three rooms, one for coaches, one for the University crew, while the third will contain shower baths. The other baths will be in the towers. Balconies will extend out from the second story towards the speedway...