Word: courts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cream-colored limestone, from Bedford, Ind., has been selected for the outer skin of the buildings where these will be open to the public view, and also where they face the great court and two minor courts which are a striking feature of the architectural plan. In inter- ior courts and similar locations cream-colored brick will be used. Near the bases of the walls, some heavier stone is used, in accordance with architectural practice. This is called the base-course, and is being constructed out of pink granite from Townsend, Mass. About two-thirds of this...
Under the new regulations, in force for the first time this year, all second-year men were divided into clubs of eight each, six of whom represented their clubs before the "court." At each argument two representatives of one club faced two from another, judges deciding upon the winner. In this way, each club took part in six arguments. To determine the clubs which should survive the qualifying round, all the organizations were divided into groups according to their respective percentages of arguments won and lost. If the highest group contained four or more clubs, all in that group only...
...platform of such a party would consist of six principles: nationality, universal free trade, universal citizenship, an international supreme court, an international police force, and disarmament...
...international supreme court, composed of judges appointed for life from the different nations in proportion to their population, would be a great step towards international peace. The salaries of the judges would be paid, through the president of the court, from a pool sum collected from the nations. The court could enforce its rulings on all international disputes by boycotting a nation's commerce, regulated by the free trade principle, and through the marine police force. This force would consist of approximately one hundred light cruisers manned by countries like Denmark or Sweden which have no political or economic ambitions...
...system which has been instituted at Sing Sing since Mr. Osborne took control is planned on very different lines. All minor offences are tried by a convicts' court, the silence rules have been greatly alleviated, the supervision is now much less strict and other similar changes have been made. The attitude of the prisoners has changed remarkably, and everything indicates that in time the men who leave Sing Sing will be really fit for citizenship in the outside world...