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...life. When President Eliot first saw him he was coming down the steps of Professor Walker's house, after having been told that his success as a teacher was hopeless. Then he became a minister, and for fourteen years worked assiduously in his profession. Owing to his steadfast stand for the Union, in Philadelphia, he was invited to speak at the Harvard College Commemoration Exercises in 1864, and this was the second time President Eliot saw him. Here Phillips Brooks poured forth such a flood of joyous, triumphant thanksgiving that not a man who heard him ever forgot...
...went into Sanders tonight to attend Mr. Clapp's lecture I found a crowd of disappointed men coming out, preferring (as one of them said) "to stay away rather than stand up for an hour and a half." It was these men of whom I thought as I sat on the floor beside a venerable gray haired lady who slept peacefully through all, and not of any discomfort of may own--for of course I was an outsider...
Professor Palmer says that the war is a very unrighteous one and that the English have not a leg to stand on; but--that nevertheless, it would be a great catastrophe if the English should get beaten...
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...
...nation to interfere in the internal affairs of another nation over which the right exists. In this controversy, the negotiations hinged on suzerainty and not on international law. England refused to accept specific reforms and the question came down to one of franchise. The Transvaal asked England to stand by her statesmen and courts, whose opinions were that suzerainty did not exist. England's magnanimity had been tried and found warning. She never claimed that the conventions have been broken nor would she accept the remedies of grievances because she claimed the right of suzerainty. Finally, discord has been made...