Word: venezuelan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...convenience. Dr. Winsor was one of the founders, and first president of the American Library Association and was at one time president of the American Historical Society. His knowledge of cartography was exceptional and his reputation such that he was called to Washington to report before the recent Venezuelan Commission, the final decision being greatly influenced by his report. It is no doubt on this account that Dr. Winsor's reputation was yet greater in Europe than in this country...
...Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1860. Since then his career has been that of a busy and successful lawyer adhering closely to the practice of his profession and rising by steady steps to a foremost place at the bar. He recently represented the Venezuelan government before the commission appointed by President Cleveland to determine the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, and it is largely owing to his clear insight and unceasing industry that the boundary dispute has been so satisfactorily settled...
...President White's lecture on "Evolution vs. Revolution in Politics" will be based largely upon his own political experiences as minister to Germany and to Russia and as a member of the Venezuelan commission. The present political conditions in this country as the result of the last election will also be considered...
...Olney's position in the Venezuelan affair in harmony with the Monroe Doctrine? (See article by S. Sidney Low in the Fortnightly Review for December...
Professor Macvane gave his second lecture on the Guiana Boundary Question last evening in the Fogg Museum. He began by outlining the various claims made by the Spanish and Dutch, and their successors, the Venezuelan Republic and the British, showing that the early Spanish claims had been much overdrawn, as shown by the actual Dutch occupations. He then examined the investigations of these claims made since 1841, and the various dividing lines proposed. The famous Schomburgk line was surveyed merely for a basis of negotiations and was not considered as final. The records seem to show that for the most...