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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show on red films, while the orchestra pounds the bass...
...that the universal training advocates urge) would add incalculable weight to his proposal. If we should continue with a military force too weak to protect our own borders, when the need of enforcing peace arose, other nations would act, while we lent our moral support. History seems to show that peace will never be kept by morals alone...
...cent, who will today vote "yes" will do so from the sincere conviction of a national need. Some have gained that conviction through personal dissatisfaction with the militia system; others from satisfaction with Plattsburg; while the rest, although they may have performed no service, will yet show their willingness, on principle, to do so. This 75 or 80 per cent. has already been congratulated in advance in your editorial of yesterday; they will be congratulated again after the voting and it will be felt that Harvard has lived up to her traditions...
...awarded solely on the basis of purity of ideals, there would be fewer monuments to greatness. But certainly Harvard's historic memorial to her sons who died in the Civil War was not erected on a foundation of partisan bitterness, and there is no reason why the college should show itself untrue to its traditions in its present tribute to student bravery...
Each essay should show an understanding of the nature and history of international arbitration apart from and in connection with the Hague Conferences and Hague Court, and may also refer to, or subject to the above requirement, emphasize such subjects as the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the proposed Judicial Arbitration Court, Good Offices and mediation and Commissions of Inquiry, as treated in the "Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes," adopted by the first and second Hague Conferences, and in the "Draft Convention Relative to the Creation of a Judicial Arbitration Court," agreed to by the second Hague Conference...