Word: prove
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Economic Society of America, which for several years has met in conjunction with the American Historical Society, will hold its meeting this year at Cornell University, Ithaca. Mr. John Graham Brooks '95 will speak on "Some Tendencies in Recent Combinations Which May Prove Dangerous...
...intolerable and demands a remedy. Second, as a nation she has a right to secure the remedy. Third, the best remedy is a reasonable franchise grant to the Uitlanders. Regarding the first of these, that the condition of affairs in the Transvaal demanded a remedy, he cited cases to prove that there was no representation in equality before the law, grievous economic burdens and insecurity of life and property. He then went on to show that grievances in South Africa are wide spread and deep rooted...
...South Africa is tending to tear the races asunder, to destroy all relations that ever existed between England and the Boers. Furthermore, the few instances cited by the affirmative show no more proof of a state of mob law in the Transvaal than our 127 lynchings last year prove that the United States is in a state of riot...
...ennial dinners. It is customary and practically necessary that the chairman and one other member be residents of Boston or New York. The chairman, too, should be qualified to preside at the dinners and to draw out latent enthusiasm and gaiety, so that these reunions may prove all that can be hoped for. It is, however, but just and desirable that there be one Western man in this committee...
...estimation of Cyrano de Bergerac's place in the development of French literature, is given a careful, well balanced summary of the pre-classic period in France. Excellent reasons are advanced to prove that this staging of the play by the Cercle Francais will be its first presentation at any theatre. On the whole the author has shown pains-taking study of the authorities and excellent taste...