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Under the weight of all this it might be expected that the submerged pacifists would be seen no more. But deluded as they are they will in all likelihood continue their agitation. Probaby they will do so principally outside the University where there exists a less favored but considerable body of citizens whose sense of obligation to their country is not so lively because, perhaps, they feel that they have less from that country. If the pacifist propaganda makes headway among such sections of public opinion--as it shows signs of doing--it will mean that something bigger and more...
...calls for an army of engineers. India, bewailing her illiteracy, calls for teachers. Aeronautics, wireless telegraphy, branches of social service and dozens of other almost unexplored professions are constantly opening for those who feel within them the genius which might spell success, and the enthusiasm which fears no likelihood of hardship...
...likelihood the same batteries will face each other as two weeks ago. Link has not worked since last Saturday and the sending of Garritt against Williams yesterday showed that Coach Mitchell is reserving Mahan for tomorrow's engagement...
...said that military training develops too far the pugnacious instincts, which should rather be lulled to rest. Again, look at Switzerland. No passion is made more unruly by being instructed and self-conscious; the reverse is true. A course of lessons in boxing adds nothing to the likelihood that a man will attack his neighbor on the street; though it may well make-him more ready to go to the aid of a neighbor in distress. It is forgotten by those who urge these criticisms that in military training the enemy is present chiefly in imagination, whereas the person...
...Columbia are much in favor of the proposed shortening of the course, as they regard the four-mile contest too much of a strain. Coach Vivian Nickalls of Pennsylvania, however, believes that the shorter race would only mean rowing three miles proportionally faster and as a result with more likelihood of injury...