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...House serves as a clearing house where generous minded young men in the University may learn how to make their generosity count in the most efficient way,--a kind of school for training in the art of applied kindness. The actual social service work is done mostly in the settlement houses of Boston and Cambridge, where so far this year over 250 men have been teaching and leading boys clubs of various kinds. One man with musical talent is leading an orchestra. Two other men, one an H. man in football for three years, are teaching a class in tumbling...
...question of social service has been somewhat complicated since the war by the changes which have come about not only in the settlement houses themselves, but in the demands made upon the time of students. Despite the fact that the average student is busier than ever before, partly because of compulsory physical training for Freshmen and the divisional examinations, the number of men engaged in voluntary social service has remained at about the pre-war level...
...month ago the Prime Minister was known to be anxious for a general election at that time on the issue of his settlement of the Irish Question, but present indications point for its postponment until May or even later. The situation is certainly as serious as any Lloyd George has ever had to face, but he has slipped through so many trying places that few among his supporters would be surprised to see him surmount his present difficulties and be again victorious...
...ghosts of a long line of Irish patriots should be laid, and something akin to permanent peace brought to the land of Killarney. The treaty embodies practically every point for which Irish orators and statesmen have labored since before the time of Gladstone, even down to an acceptable settlement of the status of Ulster...
...this very reason are making an effort to eliminate the cause of war--conflicting interests of the nations, particularly in the Far East. But no matter how successfully present differences may be harmonized, no one can be so sanguine as to hope that what is at best a temporary settlement will take care of future divergency of interests and causes for conflict...