Word: doned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another column, the CRIMSON prints an appeal by President Lowell for pacifists and preparationists alike to interest themselves in the recently formed League to Enforce Peace. The league plans to abolish war by minimizing the value of preparedness. This will be done by a contract between nations not to go to war with each other until the matter has been referred to arbitration. All the nations will bind themselves to fight against one which declares war without referring the matter to a tribunal...
...feeling in the two countries had run dangerously high. If the league had consisted, besides these two nations, of France, Germany, Russia, and Japan, neither England nor the United States, however excited, would for a moment have thought of risking war with all the other powers. They would have done just what in that case was done, submitted the whole matter in dispute to arbitration, and even if the decision had proved distasteful, passion would have had such time to cool that the result would in all probability have been accepted, or the parties would have agreed upon a compromise...
...call a meeting of the city council for conference Why instead of having a police force, should not the citizens agree to boycott offenders? The answer is clearly--because it would not be effective in preventing violence. By the time such remedies can be applied, the harm is done; in the case of nations the war has begun, and the world is ablaze. The fear of an international boycott may be great, but for a country that has prepared elaborately for war it is slight compared with the prospect of an armed conflict with all the other great powers...
...head coach for the Blue this year has been Guy Nickalls, the Englishman who had them under charge last season. He has done most excellent work with the crews and is well satisfied with his men. He has been assisted by Coach Giannini, who has in general had the second crew to train while Nickalls looks after the first and the freshmen...
...features of the games in August will be the east vs. west competition. The recent western conference meet resulted some remarkable records, the eastern marks being beaten in seven events. Ward, of Chicago, has done the 100-yard dash in 9 4-5 seconds, and the 220 in 21 3-5 seconds. In the high hurdles, there will be the world's record holder, Kelley, of the University of Southern California. Simpson, of Missouri, however, has made 15 seconds flat this year. Other stars of the west are Campbell, of Chicago, in the half-mile, Myers, of De Pauw...