Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...take the midnight express for Washington, where the party will be taken through the House of Representatives. Speaker Cannon will present the delegates to President Taft and Vice-President Sherman. Conferences have been arranged with several of the cabinet officers and one of the Justices of the Supreme Court...
Washington, D. C., March 31, 1909.--At the request of President Taft, President Eliot called at the White House this morning and the two conferred in the Blue Room. It is understood that the Embassy to the Court of St. James was officially tendered to President Eliot and that he was given time to consider it. The expectation is that he will accept the post and will not enter upon the duties before October, for the official change at London is not to be made until then, and possibly not until later. Both men refused to discuss what took place...
...evening the three principal speakers were President Eliot, the President of the United States, and ex-Secretary of State Root. The last two were vied in praise of President Eliot's character and ability, and, though no definite announcement was made relative to his appointment as Ambassador to the Court of St. James, both speakers attributed to him all the qualities necessary to the occupancy of that station...
...judges were E. R. A. Sellgman, professor of Political Economy at Columbia; F. J. Goodman, professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science at Columbia; and W. S. Andrews, justice of the Supreme Court of New York. The speakers for Princeton were P. S. Walters '10, N. Ewing, Jr., '09, and M. H. Fry '09' and those for Yale were J. L. Conaughty '09. S. E. Keeler, Jr., '10, and E. C. Wyman L. '09. The men spoke in the following order in rebuttal. Conaughty, Walters, Keeler, Ewing, Wyman...
Finally there is a growing sentiment in favor of arbitration and the judicial settlement of disputes. It is not the dream of the few, but the positive need of men and nations that we have a court of international arbitration where quarries and all other differences among nations may be finally settled. Undoubtedly we shall have such a court in the near future...