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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...moment of final default, the award of the Hague tribunal must stand as a judgment. It means immediate satisfaction at that time, and anything less would be an overthrow of the judgment. A nation should have the same right of recoupment out of a debtor's property that a judgment creditor has at common law. In international law seizure of land is recognized as a legal means. In the case tonight the creditor has chosen this immediate means of obtaining satisfaction under the award, and, between the two countries involved, this will be a just proceeding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS THE DEBATE. | 3/24/1903 | See Source »

Aside from any plan of re-organization it may be questioned why officers of any undergraduate society should get salaries or professional fees. A lesson might be drawn from the overthrow of the late directorate of Memorial because it voted a $50.00 position to one of its members. The Presidents of Memorial and of Randall and the Chairman of the Athletic Committee get no salary, yet to the lay mind their work is quite as exacting as the Presidency of the Co-operative. T. H. WHITNEY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 5/31/1902 | See Source »

...conditions of the boss rule in New York are typical of those in all large cities. The only way to free the cities of this evil is for men to work to overthrow the rule as forcefully as the bosses work to establish it. The present conditions of corruption are due to politics and hypocrisy. If laws even though wrong stand on the statute books, then the officers are in duty bound to enforce them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Jerome's Talk. | 5/31/1902 | See Source »

...defeated by Exeter on Saturday in a poorly played game by the score of 5 to 4. Dudley pitched unsteadily for Harvard and allowed the Exeter team to hit freely and consecutively. At the same time he was poorly supported in the field, six errors being made. An overthrow to home by Rockwell and a similar wild throw to third base by Nye let in three of Exeters' runs. The other two were the indirect results of inexcusable errors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exeter, 5; Second Nine, 4. | 5/19/1902 | See Source »

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