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...actual condition of war and we hope for a long period of peace, but there are certain problems coming up for the country. There are big national problems which we must settle. There is nothing very emotional or exciting; they are about as substantial and unemotional as the Lord's Prayer or the Ten Commandments. They are fundamental, at the bottom of our national integrity, national force and perhaps national existence. They lie at the foundations of government, just as the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments lie at the foundation of our moral and spiritual life. They furnish...
...hope you will hold on to a safe policy. I do not think that there is the slightest doubt that if we had been ready, there would have been no world's war. I remember years ago when Germany was building up her military policy, I was with Lord Roberts, and we were talking about this German machine, and he said, "I am going to devote the balance of my life to try to wake England up." And he did devote most of his life to that effort...
...been said of Lord Grey that he has many sides: the Liberal side, the Foreign Office side, and the side that delights in fly-fishing, country walks, and friendship. Viscount Grey himself says that this last is his only true side--and from it has sprung the inspiration for his latest book, "Recreation." In this essay, which he delivered as his speech at the Union last December, the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Great Britain, discusses with color, clearness, and charm the place of recreation in a well ordered life, dealing most fully with the pastimes, which have given...
...Memorial Room of the Widener Library there is now on exhibition a notable collection, formerly owned by Mr. Widener, of first editions, manuscripts, and letters of the British romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron. Two very rare and much sought after books in the show-cases are Coleridge's "The Watchman" and "The Friend," little magazines which are interesting to compare with our modern journals. A first edition of the "State man's Manual," with numerous corrections and notes in Coleridge's autograph, is one of the prizes of the collection. Beside these rare editions are various manuscripts...
Professor Samuel Morrison, Professor R. B. Perry A.M. '97, Captain Robert Goetz commandant of the University R. O. T. C. Professor F. W. Taussig '79, and Professor r. H Lord '06 are among the faculty members who will act as chairmen at the meetings. The lectures have been made possible by friends of the University who are anxious to present as much information about Russia as possible...