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...being convinced as to just what their contributions will be for the settlement of international problems. The question of the military camps is not one of aggressive militarism; it is one of making a beginning towards a consistent policy which may be followed in the future to give the maximum security for this country. The old form of national defense has proved antiquated; we must invest in a new. A practical beginning must be made and there is no better place to make it than in the American universities. The summer military camps are a movement in exactly the opposite...
...that the united Mexican people if invaded could easily wipe out all of the regular army we could send there, and ask, for more. There are about 185,000 men under arms there now, and while our troops are much better, the difference in quality would not make our maximum of 35,000 anywhere near their equal...
...patriotism. It is argued that if it is the duty of a man to sacrifice his life for his country in time of war, it is equally his duty and the part of wisdom to prepare himself in time of peace that his sacrifice may give the maximum of production with the least actual loss. Lying back of this argument is the further assumption--less prominent now since the outbreak of war in the armed camps of Europe--that "adequate armament" is itself the best guarantee of peace. The Summer Training Camps offer, it is held, an opportunity for college...
...urged that it was particularly fitting that this country, the parent of religious and national toleration, should be the champion of mediation without armistice. She proposed that a conference of the representatives of the warring nations be contrived, and that a complete statement of their differences with their respective maximum peace terms be ascertained. Then would we have tangible material with which to work, and the germs from which might grow a clearer view of the situation, and correspondingly simpler methods of bringing peace. What we need is world loyalty, and views of economic and social relations that embrace...
...Graduate School. The arrangement, which will be tried for two years, provides that graduate students and Seniors in the Boston University School of Theology who have attained an average grade of 85 per cent. may register in the Harvard Divinity School and take without charge a maximum of two Harvard courses as part of their year's work in the Boston University School of Theology. This arrangement, while differing in its details from the affiliation of Andover Theological Seminary with Harvard, and from the affiliation arranged last year with the Episcopal Theological School by which students in that school...