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...another column, the CRIMSON prints an appeal by President Lowell for pacifists and preparationists alike to interest themselves in the recently formed League to Enforce Peace. The league plans to abolish war by minimizing the value of preparedness. This will be done by a contract between nations not to go to war with each other until the matter has been referred to arbitration. All the nations will bind themselves to fight against one which declares war without referring the matter to a tribunal...
Experience has shown that nations as well as individuals will break an unenforcable contract. But no nation, however well prepared, would risk engaging all the other combined powers at once. The delay occasioned by the judgement of the tribunal would allow hasty passions to cool and sober second thought would be satisfied with an adjustment which could not be made in the first anger. The prepared country would moreover, lose all the advantage of its preparedness through the delay...
...ready for use. The equipment of the Crimson Printing Company will be transferred from the Union during the summer and the company will continue its present relations with the CRIMSON, renting its space in the new building from the CRIMSON, and printing the newspaper under contract...
...ground for the new Commons at Princeton will be broken on June 16, the day after the college closes. Pending the letting of the contract for the construction of the new buildings, the excavating will be done by the University...
...CRIMSON, however, conclusively proved by an unsigned contract for a Yard room that this was not the case, and that it didn't matter anyway. Not wanting to lose the game on account of a mere technicality, the CRIMSON refused to consider the protest...