Word: africa
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...James Barnes, Princeton '91, will speak tonight in the living room of the Union, on "Side Lights on the Boer War." Mr. Barnes is well known as a correspondent to various papers and periodicals, and as a writer of books on the navy. He has recently returned from South Africa where he acted as correspondent for "McClure's Magazine" and "The Outlook." A volume entitled "The War in the Trecht," is his latest work. The lecture will probably be illustrated with the stereopticon...
...only a literary man, but also a scholar. I refer to Mr. John A. Hobson, lecturer in the London School of Economics, and author of several well-known books upon economic theory and history, which are regularly used in our economic courses. Mr. Hobson's "The War in South Africa: its Causes and Effects," was written after a sojourn of several months in South Africa, and, in the opinion of many, represents the most dispassionate, as also the most penetrating consideration that the war has yet received...
...cent book is wanted, I would advise, at least as a healthful antidote for the pamphlet suggested by your correspondent, the American edition of "Peace or War in South Africa," by A. M. S. Methuen, the senior member of the London publishing house of that name. Even Mr. Doyle himself pronounces this book "able and moderate." VERITAS...
Several members of the University having expressed a desire to assist in relieving the distress of the Boer women and children confined in British concentration camps in South Africa, it has been decided to open a general subscription in their behalf. The money so collected will be forwarded according to the advice of the Rev. Herman van Broekhuizen, former pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Pretoria, who spoke at the Union last Wednesday evening. A letter from him has been promised stating the methods of distributing such relief funds, and it will be made public when received...
...Hendrik Muller, Diplomatic Envoy from the Orange Free State, and the Rev. Herman van Broekhuizen of Pretoria, spoke at the Union last night on the conditions in South Africa...