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...stirring event. Princeton is well known for its well-trained and commanding debaters, and the team which will defend the honors of the University tonight will be compelled to put forth all the skill and ability with which weeks of grueling preparation have equipped it. The only non-athletic activity in which we compete with our brethren from Princeton and Yale, debating has rapidly acquired the prestige which it deserves in view of its vital connection with the public life into which it is but natural that college men should go upon graduation. May "the Harvard habit of winning debates...
Consolidation of Non-Christian World...
...travel, the nations of the world have been brought close together. As a result, there is an increased friction between the different countries, and a breaking up of the old restraints. It is this tendency towards compactness which presents the gravest danger, namely, the increasing consolidation of the non-Christian world...
Numerous remedies for these conditions have been proposed. The segregation of the different races has been suggested, while, on the other hand, others favor an amalgamation. Still a third remedy is a naval and military domination of the non-Christian world by the Christians. All these, however, Mr. Mott declares to be impossible. Even the additional proposal for the spread of education increases the difficulties. It is Mr. Mott's firm conviction that the only way to avoid the rising dangers is to change the disposition of man's inner self, to present to the non-Christians the purest possible...
...striking characteristic of the present time is the urgency for action. Many nations, like China, are in a plastic condition. A spirit of nationalism and of racial patriotism is rising rapidly, with the consequent danger of the conflict of the non-Christians with the Christians. At the same time there has been a growth of the dangerous influences of the non-Christian world upon our own. Here again, it is our duty to prevent any continuation. But instead of having paganism to fight against, we must work against an objectionable form of syncretism and eclecticism. The taking of half-truths...