Word: bruce
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...manner of presenting their arguments, but the Princeton men were equally strong in the arguments themselves. The Harvard men were uniformly superior in delivery, language and all the points of form, and their arguments fitted well together and developed more smoothly than those of the Princeton speakers. Bruce began rebuttal work in his first speech, the second on the Harvard side, whereas the first two Princeton speeches were entirely set and made no attempt to meet the affirmative's arguments. The Harvard stand was that the conditions justified interference, that England had the right to interfere and that her methods...
...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...
...Hill, the second speaker for Princeton, opened his debate by stating that Bruce had not quoted Weston rightly. Weston had declared that the Transvaal was independent only in internal affairs, whereas Bruce said it was entirely independent. Up to 1884 it was England's policy to prevent the Transvaal from having even a moderate self-government, and after that year the Boers became entirely unaccustomed to independent government. The Jameson raid was the real cause of the present disturbance, which was greatly increased by the pressure of England's claims to suzerainty. If Great Britain had thrown aside these claims...
...Bruce, instead of Mayer, as was expected, opened the rebuttal for Harvard. He said that England did not bring on the war, since the Transvaal issued an ultimatum which no nation could stand, and since the condition of two-thirds of the people in the Transvaal was such as to bring on war in any case. There is no probability of a more peaceful attitude toward the Uitlanders in future, because the younger Boers are more hostile to them than the older men. The change was bound to come, and would have come by a revolution, if England...
Roscoe Conkling Bruce '02, of Indianapolis, prepared at Exeter where he was a member of the Golden Branch Debating Society, the oldest debating organization in America. While at Exeter he was an editor of the Literary Monthly and assistant business manager of the Exonian. He was the winner of the Pasteur Medal last year...