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...results of war are not entirely material. They are probably not in large part material. Their great effect, when history is written, is not in the building up of empires and the altering of maps, but in the thoughts of nations...
...individuals of those nations it has worked a like effect. It has gone further in making men fatalistic, a thing which a nation may never be. Those who had thought their hold on life was the surest, who talked boldly of fundamentals, and eternity, and destiny, now find themselves where all which before seemed sure is unsure, and the very meaning of existence is lacking...
...Corps. The withdrawal of the Army officers detailed here is another, and a more immediate misfortune. Rumors of other changes, of the detachment of the French Mission, and of radical modifications of the training schedule, however foolish and baseless such rumors may be, have had a sorry effect on the firmness of purpose of many...
...effect of the war on athletic organizations is well seen in the present activities of the eleven members of the University football team which lined up against Yale last fall for the final test of the season. In fact this team is now a United States team, for every member has entered some branch of military service or ambulance work. Reading down the line-up from right end, which position was filled by R. Harte '17, the first man on the list, is at Plattsburgh. G. C. Caner '17, right tackle, is with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service somewhere...
Much has appeared in our newspapers recently to the effect that the belligerent Allies are getting thoroughly tired of the war. Correspondents who are supposedly expert diagnosticians of national and international ailments attribute this symptom to the state of affairs in Russia. They feel that the present opposition of the Slav to this war and the utter chaos in his country are crystalizing anti-militaristic feeling in the other nations, and that this situation may bring about a speedy peace...