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...first defined when he asked the European Powers to accept the Open Door as the foundation of their relations with China, the article which Philander Knox amplified when he proposed the neutralization of the Manchurian Railways, and the article which Woodrow Wilson repudiated when he consented to the cession of Shantung to Japan. An international agreement which initiated a promising settlement of the problem of China would accomplish as much for the future peace of the world as would a healing of the quarrel between France and Germany, and it would remove one of the most formidable obstacles...
...China this year the students went into politics for the first time. The cession of Shantung to Japan had stunned the country. A military clique controlled the government, and the people, without means of expression, waited...
...decision of the court in Fleming vs. Page (9 Howard). The court said in regard to Tampica, a conquest by the United States: 'It was undoubtedly under the sovereign dominion of the United States.' But yet it was not a part of the Union. That the treaty of cession did not bring Porto Rico within our boundaries is clear from the wording of the treaty itself, and secondly, from the uniform construction put upon such treaties by Congress, and thirdly, from the decision of the court in the case of Cross vs. Harrison (16 Howard) referring to California which...
...been the almost universal hope and the general belief in Cambridge that the two universities would not allow a trivial matter to keep their athletic teams apart long. The good, which some believed a cession of athletics would accomplish, has been done, if it will be done at all, and it is time for a new and healthier rivalry to begin. It is to be hoped that those who have in charge the proposals for the renewal of athletics will not let any trivial technical points of pride or diplomacy keep the two universities apart...
...first class sets the boundary of Guiana at the Essequibo River; the others vary largely in their conclusions. Of the set which places the boundary at the Essequibo we have five maps-an American atlas (1796), a Paris map (1781), a London atlas, published the year of the cession of Guiana to England, a French geographer's map (1803), and a Caracas map of obscure and doubtful origin...