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...arms is the only ultimate solution for international problems, why hesitate to appeal thereto? Why, for instance, do all the nations of Europe seek to justify themselves before each other and the world by claiming to be waging a purely defensive war? If the opinion of the world can compel men to fight according to rule, to murder and pillage like Christian gentlemen, why can it not compel them to settle their differences according to reason and with-out fighting? He is blind indeed to modern thought who seeks to argue from the world of a century and more...
...same may be said of the orals, which are not notable for their popularity but which cannot be escaped even by those who like them lest. However, it would be a task not lightly to be undertaken to round up a thousand or more rebellious young men and compel them to mark time and shoulder arms a couple of times a week...
...Navy, as well as seven years as the naval attache of the United States in London. He was one of the noted captains under Admiral Sampson, and was in command of the ship which was sent to put a pressure on the bandit-chief Rais Ullah to compel him to give up lon Perdicaris '58 who had been captured. Since his retirement in 1906 Admiral Chadwick has turned to literature and has produced many noted works. The speaker will be introduced by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart...
...case was kindly undertaken for the Wilson Club by Mr. R. S. Hoar '09, attorney at law with the firm of Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter, of Boston, and a petition for mandamus was brought to compel the assessors and registrars to assess and register the petitioner. Justice Braley has given the assessors and registrars until April 1 to assess and register Warfield and pay all expenses of the petitioners. If this is not done by that date, he will issue the writ. It is thought unlikely that the city authorities will in this case appeal to the full bench...
...educational purposes. He deplores the habit which too many well-intentioned donors have of locking up their bequests in certain specified projects. "What the university most needs", he says, "is gifts which will aid it in its doing better work which it has already undertaken, and not gifts which compel it to assume new obligations that in turn make an additional drain on its already over-taxed resources...