Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...enforce peace does not go very far--not far enough to please those who look forward to a universal federation of the world, but probably quite as far as is practicable. It proposes that the members shall agree not to go to war with one another before submitting the matter in dispute -- whether strictly a question of international law or not--to an impartial body selected to examine it; and that all the members shall pledge themselves to declare war on any of their number that begins hostilities against another without submitting the question in that...
...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...
...further evidence in the number. Professor Merriman writes a vivid account of "A Day at the French Front," and Mr. Cutler gives some illuminating matter relating to the ambulance work undertaken by the University medical units. There is ample proof contained in "War Notes" that Harvard men have worked and fought, and some have died, upon European battlefields; and that honorable and unselfish service has been rendered...
...varying from five to ten or fifteen miles in length. The times of the Blue oarsmen have compared very closely with those of the Harvard eight. In the only time trials which run close enough together to allow a very fair comparison Harvard's, was the fastest by a matter of three seconds, which means three-quarters of a length. The times were 20minutes, 2 seconds, and 21 minutes, 5 seconds. Yale was paced by their second crew during the last mile while their opponents rowed the whole trial independently...