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Reverend J. O'Donovan of Longhres, Ireland, will lecture on "Agricultural Co-operation in Ireland" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. Dr. O'Donovan is an interesting speaker, well informed on his subject. He is connected with Horace Plunkett, a member of Parliament who is at the head of the work of establishing agricultural co-operation in the north of Ireland...
...made to conciliate us and to purchase our acquiescence." The Clayton-Bulwer treaty may have been repealed to strengthen an Anglo-Saxon understanding, but hardly to purchase our acquiescence in a war policy pursued on a continent to which, happily, the Monroe Doctrine does not extend. The announcement in Parliament the other day that England alone had sided with us in the Spanish war was made not to offset any rising collegiate feeling in America, but, it is presumed, as an effort to offset the effect of Prince Henry's visit...
...Sophomore debating team defeated the team from the sophomore and freshman classes of Brown University in a debate this evening on the question: "Resolved, That the present policy of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of the Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team supported the negative, and won through presenting a more logical case, and through superior rebuttal. The Brown debaters were somewhat nervous in rebuttal and failed to meet several of Harvard's arguments, while the chief strength of the Harvard team lay in effective refutation...
...team from the sophomore and freshman classes of Brown university in Sayles Memorial Hall, Providence, this evening at 8 o'clock, on the question: "Resolved, That the present policy of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of the Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team, which will support the negative, is composed of D. A. McCabe, E. W. Baker, J. N. Johnson, and W. Badt alternate. The Brown team is composed of Messrs. Boone '04, Martin '04, Hawkins '05, and Meader '05 alternate, all of whom are experienced debaters...
...Economic Association will also meet in Washington, on the first three days of the Historical Association meeting. Harvard will be represented by two members of the Faculty who will read papers as follows: Prof. Ephraim Emerton, "The Chronology of the Erasmus letters;" Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell, "Party Legislation in Parliament, in Congress and in the State Legislatures...