Word: code
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first committee suggested that the Powers should consider a means of limiting their armaments. The second committee made the laws of war more humane. By far the most important results were those obtained by the committee on arbitration. Before the Hague treaty was signed there was no real code of International law; so that this treaty has been aptly called the "Magna Charta of International Law." By it, arbitration is not compulsory, but every nation is urged to resort to it. Four judges are to be selected from each nation, from whom each of the contending parties will select...
...first game of the Harvard and Yale series was played at New Haven, November 13, 1875. Harvard had formed a football club three years before, but the Universities could not agree upon a code of rules to govern the contest. Up to this time, Yale's game had consisted solely in kicking, while Harvard's allowed running with the ball, holding and passing. Yale made a concession and played under rules with which she was unfamiliar. As a result she was beaten, and the score, by the old system, was four goals and two touchdowns to nothing. In this game...
...Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee recently held a meeting with the idea of clearing up several points in the code of rules drawn up last year. No radical changes have been made in the methods of play, but the rules as they now read can not be misunderstood. Rule 7 has been changed to read as follows...
Fifteen men are now out daily practicing the code with the Signal Corps. From these men ten will soon be chosen to form the corps. The election of officers resulted as follows: Lieutenant J. F. Neal 1 L.; sergeant, B. P. Merrick '99. Two corporals are to be chosen by the lieutenant...
Best general references: N. Y. Evening Post, Feb. 9-17; Public Opinion, Feb. 17; American State Papers; Hall, Int. Law, pp. 318-321; Wharton: Int. Law Digest; Field: Int. Law Code, pp. 98-101; N. Y. Tribune, Feb. 9-17; London Times, Feb. 10-18; London Spectator...