Word: justice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose to nourish its members on long lists of past cases and decisions. Neither is its purpose to hand down decisions on future disputes, as the ancient University of Paris did in weighty ecclesiastical affairs. The academy at the Hague intends solely to explore the bases of international justic and the rules for its beneficent administration. Not only will it further international understanding and furnish a preparatory school for membership in the Permanent Hague Court, but it will also blaze the trail for more such schools in other fields of study...