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...France-Japanese agreement was simply a safeguard for French Indo-China, but owing to the bad French translation of its original form, it may one day give China a pretext for complaint of unjustifiable foreign interference in her affairs. The treaty between Russia and Japan, though drawn up at Portsmouth when the war ended, was not reduced to satisfactory form till the autumn of 1907. Although bearing hardly on Russia, in some respects it ensures peaceful conditions for Russian activities in the Far East...
...should be left to the undergraduates themselves. The captain of a team hands in the name of a man he has nominated for manager. The appointment is then approved by the Graduate Treasurer and by the Committee; but this ratification is in most cases a formality, and a mere safeguard against any manifestly improper choice. The Committee does not concern itself with the question of how the captain arrived at his selection, whether by competition or promotion or because he preferred a certain candidate. It has not felt that such things lay within its province. In the same...
...suited, however, for only two parties. For the last few years the powers of the House of Commons have been declining and at the same time the cost of obtaining and keeping a seat in this body has increased. England is ruled chiefly by its traditions and its great safeguard is in the good feeling between its social classes...
...speaker concluded by briefly out-lining the safeguard to the public peace which the greater power of the President would mean, the preventative effect which this power would have, and the necessity of such power for unusual crises...
...having received the proposed by laws, I am unable to say how far the trustees propose to safeguard their business,--or rather safeguard our business, since the whole capital is derived form the sacrifices of old members. We do not know for instance whether the statements of their accounts which they intend to publish are to be thorough and detailed: in the past there was a period of several years when those accounts were kept secret, to the great detriment of the Society. Again what opportunities will there be for the examination of complaints? The proposed trustees...