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...enjoying intellectual and moral opportunities for breadth of development which far overshadow any that he will have in the future. The industry, humility, and aspiration which should be his in such surroundings is too often not to be found. The CRIMSON prints the following from a speech by Congressman Clement Brumbaugh '94, delivered recently before the Harvard Club of Washington. Although the style savors of Congressional oratory, there is a sincerity of feeling and truth underlying...
...Cornell Conference on International Relations which begins today offers courses of lectures which should broaden and deepen the view of any man, pacifist or militarist, in regard to the most fundamental and far-reaching problems of our times. The predominant tone of the Conference will be anti-militarist; but Congressman Gardner and General Wood will be present to give their views in favor of preparedness. It is the duty of men of all shades of opinion to acquire the greatest possible insight into the ideas of the thinkers who are giving all their time and energy to working...
...Willis Greenleaf Calderwood, of Minnesota, an expert political organizer and prohibition worker, will speak in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock on "Managing a Political Campaign." Mr. Calderwood has been a member of the National Prohibition Exective Committee since 1912, and was the Prohibition candidate for Congressman from Minnesota in '1912. He is widely known as a campaign speaker...
...letter published in your issue of Friday a regards militarism in the form of drill a Harvard. The question of military preparedness is one of the pre-eminen problems of this country today. Harvard, however, is not the place in which to begin preparations for war, if as Congressman Gardner and General Wood assert, such measures are immediated necessary. Let our regular soldiers be properly equipped, and our military reorganized before we even begin to think of carrying war into our educational institutions. Harvard has, and I am convinced will do, as she always has done her share, not more...
...view of Congressman Gardner's assertion that this country is totally unprepared for war, would it not be a good plan for Harvard to fit her men, so that if war should come they would be better able to serve their country? "In times of peace prepare for war" is an axiom which, although little heeded in this country, has been proven by Germany to be only too true. Two hour's drilling a week would not materially disarrange the life of the students. Besides preparing them for an emergency, the drills would be beneficial in a moral and physical...