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...Nationalist minority the alliance with the great Liberal party which forced the passage of the Home Rule bill a few months before the outbreak of the war. Redmond was deprived of the consummation of his triumph by the great events of August, 1914, and he saw the progress attained by years of unremitting effort lost through the stubborn resistance of the Ulstermen and the excesses of the Sinn Fein revolutionists. Unembittered by these reverses, Redmond from the first counselled complete Irish co-operation in the British Empire's fight against Prussian militarism, and maintained to the end his uncompromising hostility...
...very fact that a beneficial change has been aimed at is reason for encouragement. Investigations can not be called futile if they result in the remedy of errors. Inasmuch as the recent discussions have caused general condemnation of our lack of co-operation and progress, any attempt to benefit conditions must be encouraged. So long as Secretary Baker tries to eliminate proven faults, he will be heartily supported...
...accessories, we have furnished certain other "sinews of war." In ten months the Government has spent seven billion dollars, of which one half has been loaned to the Allies. To have used is no small aid to the nations struggling against Germany. Without investigations, censure, or even criticism valuable progress has been made...
...shows the necessity of training in organization and management. To educate citizens with this purpose in view becomes a service to the nation. In the years of reconstruction which are due to come, the aid of trained business men will be necessary. The growth of the graduate school shows progress whether in war or in peace...
Because the "times seem inappropriate for the usual festivities," the New York Harvard Club has indefinitely postponed its annual dinner. In place of this usual reunion and in order that those members of the club who are not absent from the city on war service may learn of the progress of affairs at the university, and particularly that they may hear of the important part which the members of the University are having in the war, a meeting of the club will be held next Saturday evening at 9 o'clock. President Lowell has promised to be present. Colonel Paul...