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...detailed program will consist of short discourses followed by discussion from nine to ten-thirty in the morning in the fundamentals of International Law and the theory of International Trade. These lectures will be followed by a two-hour conference on the terms of settlement making for a more lasting peace. The afternoons will be devoted to out-of-door sports, particularly favorable opportunities being afforded for tennis, canoeing, sailing, and short walking trips to such nearby places of interest as Tanghannock Falls and the George Junior Republic. In the evenings there will be lectures and small group discussions...
...outstanding characteristic of modern civilization is the ever increasing use of the intensive scientific method; while the most striking single feature of the present war is the universal vagueness as to the issues involved and the amateurish nature of discussion as to the means of settlement...
...always the most reasonable or satisfactory arbiter of international disputes, yet is it the only ultimate one. Arbitrations and treaties are all very well, but some questions must be fought out to be settled finally. (Perhaps here again he would point to Europe--as an example of a "final settlement...
...civilized nation coincides with the limitation of armaments and the prevention of war, we are very optimistic as to the possibility of permanent peace provided only the peoples of the nations can be educated as to what their self-interest is; and provided the necessary machinery for the judicial settlement of international disputes can be created...
...educate the voter and supply the diplomatists. Fortunately the correspondents have themselves indirectly answered this question for us. No one can read the letters of those who support the camps or have actually been to them without 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...