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...case, The gentlemen have suggested no means of collecting the debt other than seizing territory. By the terms of the question the European power could not seize territory exceeding in value the amount of the award. Our opponents have argued that to allow seizure of territory would be to abandon the Monroe Doctrine. We of the affirmative believe that wherever the Monroe Doctrine conflicts with justice and right, wherever it operates to destroy legal claims, wherever it prevents carrying out an arbitration award, the doctrine must of necessity yield. Yet in arguing for the temporary suspension of the doctrine under...
...home of the bankrupt. Once allow a European state a foot-hold in South America and it will be impossible to prevent its taking more and more or even destroying the republics. The justice of the Monroe Doctrine has been recognized by England, Germany, all the world. Why abandon it now when there is no necessity of so doing; why abandon the policy of Washington and Jefferson, of Webster and Lincoln, of Cleveland and Roosevelt; the one great policy for which the United States has stood for 80 years? Why do all this for a paltry claim of money...
...slowness of Mrs. Eliot's recovery from her recent illness has made it necessary for President Eliot to abandon the greater part of his western trip. According to the new itinerary, the engagements at Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco have been given up, and New York, Brooklyn and Baltimore are the only cities to be visited. Later on, however, the President and Mrs. Eliot hope to be able to visit the southern cities at which it was originally planned to stop on the way home. The President's place will be taken by Dean Briggs at the meeting...
...Yale University Lawn Tennis Association has decided to abandon the annual spring interscholastic tournament unless entries are received from at least six schools before April...
...work. The Dean adds a table to show what percentage of the students who graduated with distinction each category contains, and this table will be found to be one of the most interesting of the series. It proves conclusively that many of the strongest students of the College abandon the Classics and mathematics for studies which seem to them more likely to be serviceable in the actual activities of modern society. These tables, as the Dean points out, do not furnish material for an exhaustive study of the elective system in Harvard College; but they support the belief that...