Word: wars
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Besides interdormitory relay races, there will be the following events: 20-yard dash, handicap; rope climb, threelegged race, 16-pound shot-put, handicap; running high-jump, handicap; potatorace, wheelbarrow race, sack race, poleclimb, interclass tug of war, 45-yard high hurdle race, open to men who have never hurdled; 45-yard high hurdle race, handicap; pole-vault, handicap; and a 2-mile cross-country race, handicap. The hurdle races, cross-country race, and dormitory relay races will be run out of doors; the two former events will be run on the board track at Holmes Field...
...these was necessary to the maintenance of the status quo in the countries of the western Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic. The Algeciras conference, although it has by no means yet solved the Moroccan question, has put Spain in a better position than any it has occupied since the war with the United States...
...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...
...speaking of the Franco-Russian alliance, M. Tardieu termed the arrangement both practical and efficient, but dwelt upon the weakening of the support afforded by Russia after the late war in the East, and also on the personal ascendency which the Czar exercised over the Kaiser. Since the conference at Algeciras, the relations between the two countries have been placed on a more satisfactory basis, though the terms of the treaty remain the same...
...Some Neglected Aspects of War," by Capt. H. T. Mahan...