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Reference has been made elsewhere in these columns to the success at Harvard of rugby as a purly informal game played only for the amusement it gives. The resolution to abstain from an official status undoubtedly expresses the will of the players to keep it so. In England men continue the game years after their college days; they are fortunate in that country because of the great number of amateur rugby clubs. Not the least of the merits of this new association would be an attempt to formulate more local clubs similar to the New York Rugby Club so that...
...independence of Austria is inalienable otherwise than with the consent of the said Council of the League of Nations.* Consequently Austria undertakes in the absence of the consent of the said Council to abstain from any act which might directly or indirectly or by any means whatever compromise her independence, particularly, and until her admission to membership in the League of Nations,* by participation in the affairs of another power...
Three divisions of U. S. citizens are compelled by their religious beliefs to abstain from all work and business from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday: orthodox Jews, Seventh-Day Adventists, Seventh-Day Baptists. Existing legislation in 24 of the States takes no cognizance of this fact. If members of these religious communities observe their own Sabbath, they must also observe the Sunday of other denominations...
Yale fraternity leaders, two days after Alumni Day, signed a pledge rigorously to abstain from "packing"?i. e. signing up their prospective members before the annual official calling week?a perennial campus scandal. The Yale Daily News pointed out that the fraternities did well to sign a pledge: one false step might "consign them to unenviable and irreconcilable doom...
...High Contracting Parties undertake, subject to reciprocity, to abstain from the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or similar gases, and of all analogous liquids, substances or processes. They undertake unreservedly to abstain from the use of all bacteriological melhods of-warfare...