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...were required to say what single thing in this issue of the Advocate has pleased me most, I think I should choose Mr. Robert Hillyer's "A Heron." Here there is artifice, certainly artifice justified by achievement. Here too there is imperfection, but of the sort which a less fine critical sense would have trimmed away, losing with it the suggestion which is now so clear of assured though careless power. The little poem has the sharp definition coupled with the large suggestiveness of the best Japanese painting
...account declare war on our part. It is the rights of neutrals to traverse the high seas in time of war that we wish to establish. If we stop at armed neutrality the issue is always clear. The warfare which might ensue would be of a purely defensive sort, and at the same time of the kind most effective against the submarines--which are the only part of Germany we have cause to fight. We should not be in any way committing ourselves to the purposes of the Allies, such as expelling the Turk from Europe, and winning back Alsace...
...public liberty. This seems to me the only and the sufficient, contribution which universities should make toward national defence. In the present highly developed condition of warfare on land and sea, there is only one way of providing for the national defence, namely, universal military service of the Swiss sort...
...President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California: "When it comes to choosing officers for the reserves, we Americans cannot base our choice as Europe does, on social caste or the possession of goods. We must turn to the colleges. Natural leadership of some sort there must be, and that leadership the higher education will provide...
Vaudeville entertainment will be supplied by a monologue artist from the Keith circuit. No members of the class are to make speeches of any sort. There will be the usual refreshments, and the Union will be open...