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...said Professor Kuno Francke at a lecture in Emerson D. last evening under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein, "only ignorance or hatred can deny that the German people engaged in this war, have presented a spectacle of consummate devotion and self-surrender in waging it. With its very outbreak, all petty class prejudices, all sectional jealousies, all sectarian rivalry, and all industrial antagonisms seem to have been swept away. In a supreme moment, the whole nation actually felt...
...Norman Prince whose courage and daring have doubly assured him a place among the heroes of this great struggle. When aviation was considered in this country as merely a sport for circus acrobats, Norman Prince foresaw the ultimate possibilities of the game, and made it his profession. At the outbreak of the European. War his pioneer spirit of bravery and sacrifice led him to organize a little band of nine aviators. As the leader of these first volunteers he made an enviable record in serving a cause which he considered worthy of his every effort. No trial of physical courage...
...prohibitions might be taken to indicate, He is merely so much the philosopher that he cannot take a national view of the questions involved in the war. Like Woodrow Wilson, he regards the whole world as mad, with one nation as much to blame as another for the general outbreak of insanity. This being, apparently, his view, Mr. Russell can hardly complain of his own treatment by the British Government; he must admit that, being in a madhouse, it is natural that the inmates, who regard themselves as sane, should after their fashion treat him as a madman. To escape...
Professor Nielson characterized as disastrous for the spiritual life of Europe the fact that at the outbreak of the war the leaders of thought abdicated their thrones, surrendered their intellectual independence and led the way for a general capitulation before the forces of national prejudice and hatred...
...successful. It was written while the trouble between France and Morocco was still going on, and, very appropriately to the talk of today, it shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was composed before the outbreak of the present European war, the play ends with the declaration of war between France and Germany...