Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discussing the specific proposition, the affirmative of which Harvard is here to uphold, we wish it understood at the outset that we do not share in the extravagant pretensions popularly set up for arbitration. We do not contend that a permanent court will extinguish the war power. We recognize that international arbitration is suited to a limited class of cases. No nation should or can bind itself to submit to arbitration its own existence or territorial integrity or questions of internal policy involved in insurrection or civil...
...issue as between a permanent court and a temporary court, for we have no system of temporary courts; we have only the chance under the gravest difficulties of getting temporary courts. The issue then is not general arbitration against special arbitration, but a permanent court against the uncertain prospect of a temporary court...
...annual Harvard-Yale debate comes off at New Haven tonight. Yale has been making extraordinary efforts this year to win and the contest is expected to be very close. Harvard has the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That a permanent court of arbitration should be established by the United States and Great Britain...
After luncheon, the trustees, faculty, alumni, students, and invited guests will proceed to the south court, where seats will be reserved for them. Prayer will be offered at 3 o'clock by the Rev. E. B. Coe, and an address will be made by President Low. Then will come the presentation of a set of the national colors by Lafayette Post, G. A. R., which will be accepted by President Low. Addresses will then be delivered by ex-Mayor Abram S. Hewitt and President Eliot. Bishop Potter will pronounce the benediction...
...will be beneficial, because its heavy penalties for violation are certain to be enforced.- (a) It renders enforcement easy.- (1) By enabling individual complainants to challenge certificates and carry their cases to court.- (2) By providing for the constant and prominent display of the tax certificate.- (3) By throwing saloon interiors plainly open to inspection during hours when sale is forbidden.- (b) It renders non-enforcement most dangerous.- (1) Remissness officially is severely punishable.- (c) It removes motives for nonenforcement.- (1) State-appointed officials cannot be bribed or intimidated by local liquor interests.- (d) It was rigidly enforced last Sunday...