Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shape of a permanent system such as is prepared by Lord Salisbury. The charge advocated is radical and uncertain, as all plans for a permanent court have been deemed impracticable and impossible. What is the excuse for a permanent court if it is not to prevent war? It is questions of principle which cause war, and they cannot be arbitrated. What recent war, we ask, could have been prevented by arbitration? We have at present, he said, a conspicuously successful system of arbitration. Why should we throw it over for an uncertain...
...discussing the specific proposition, the affirmative of which Harvard is here to uphold, we wish it understood at the outset that we do not share in the extravagant pretensions popularly set up for arbitration. We do not contend that a permanent court will extinguish the war power. We recognize that international arbitration is suited to a limited class of cases. No nation should or can bind itself to submit to arbitration its own existence or territorial integrity or questions of internal policy involved in insurrection or civil war...
...Maine boundary, for over 40 years a source of great irritation between England and the United States, was submitted to arbitration, though finally settled by treaty. Such delay enables the jingoes to seize upon disputes, harmless in themselves, and to magnify them until they have created a veritable war scare with all its moral and material consequences. Further the practice of allowing cases even of minor importance, to drag on unsetted only increases the irritation between the two countries and endangers the peaceful settlement of graver disputes...
...France or England responsible for the war...
...John Glenn of the class of '47 died in Baltimore Monday last. After graduating at Harvard he began to study law, but in 1850 suddenly became blind. During the Civil War he took sides with the South and was imprisoned. After the war he engaged in business and has long been active in helping the poor and the charities of Baltimore...