Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The Civil Service Reform Club announces an address by Mr. George McAneny, open to all members of the University, in Harvard 1, at 7.30 o'clock Thursday evening. Mr. McAneny has been for several years the secretary and acting head of the National Civil Service Reform League. He will speak...
Dr. H. A. Wolff lectured last night in Sanders Theatre on "The Transvaal and the Present Crisis." Dr. Wolff began by referring briefly to his own work as a physician in South Africa, and then gave a short account of the early history of the country.
After the settlement of the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, affairs rapidly went from bad to worse. A harsh rule, combined with slavery and forced labor, soon drove out many of the Dutch inhabitants, who worked northward and finally settled down in the Transvaal. A large French Huguenot...
England soon realized the possibilities in the Cape and purchased it from the East India Company. Slavery was abolished, and affairs took on a better aspect. Meanwhile, the Boers who had gone to the Transvaal were oppressing the natives cruelly, and frequent complaints began to be heard. The Boers, however...
The Dutch inhabitants, however, refused to discontinue their policy of land grabbing. More trouble with the natives ensued, and a commission was sent from England to investigate. The trouble was staved off for a time, and in 1883 Kruger even obtained some concessions from the home government. It was in...