Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election will be by the Australian ballot system. All members of the Phillips Brooks House Association or of any constituent society are eligible to vote. The constituent societies include the Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society, the St. Paul's Catholic Club, the Graduate School Society, the Law School Society and the Medical School Society...
Because on May 4, 1916, the German Government replied that 'in accordance with the general principles of visit and search and the destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law such vessels, both within and without the area declared a naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives unless the ship attempts to escape or offer resistance...
...University now leads all non-military schools in her preparedness program. Over 150 men enrolled in the Reserve Officers Training Unit yesterday, according to a statement by Captain Cordier. A large number of these were students in the Law School and other Graduate Schools, as well as members of the Faculty. A number of applications have been rejected owing to physical disability. Dr. R. I. Lee '02 is taking great care to see that only physically fit men pass through his hands into the training corps...
...appears to me that the letter in Saturday's CRIMSON, defending the German submarine warfare, is founded upon a misconception of the status in international law of the British blockade and the proposed submarine blockade. International law has always refused to acknowledge the validity of a paper blockade. The German submarine blockade can never be anything but a paper blockade for the very nature of the submarine makes it impossible to surround England with a cordon of blockaders. The submarine is easy prey for a warship and hence it must keep on the move. And Germany, according to international law...
England, on the other hand, has established an effective blockade. She has not filled the North Sea with a host of commerce raiders (which is what the submarines are) but has drawn a cordon around Germany's ports. And haying established a real blockade England can, under international law, refuse to allow neutrals to trade with Germany. England has at times overstepped her rights but American pocketbooks, not American lives, have suffered. America may be a land of dollar-worshippers, but there is a finer sense left in us yet which for once has made us look beyond our purses...