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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purpose of the war rather than upon the multifarious purposes of peace. The first question which we must ask regarding every question of public policy, however detailed it may be, is: How will it affect the redistribution of the national energy? Will it, or will it not, enable us to mass more man power at the points where it is needed...
...adjudication of all disputes. To refuse to submit to such adjudication is to profess a lack of confidence in our Government. That is not a loyal thing to do in war-time, when the Government is doing its best to so redirect our national energy as to enable us to win this war. When democracy is fighting for its very life, it does not show a very high appreciation of democracy to hinder it in that fight...
...Archbishop of York has come and gone, but his words remain with us as a revelation to some and a reminder to all of the great part our mother universities have played in the war. We have seen Harvard much affected, but compared to Oxford and Cambridge the changes here have been insignificant. The academic life at these English colleges is nearly at a standstill; only a handful of wounded soldiers and physically unfit still work at their old tasks. Many of the colleges have quartered in them some kind of training corps, which change the old atmospheres of academic...
...University's total of deaths has been rising at an increasing rate for the last year. We can have no hope that the rate will sink again. More and more we shall be called upon to face the bitter and yet proud griefs that our allies have suffered before us. We honor our dead as brave men who have given everything for a cause, but we must not stop to mourn too long. The greatest service we can do them is to "carry on" against the power that made them...
Tomorrow the University will have the chance to hear the Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of York. It is no small honor he is doing us by preaching here, as his schedule of public addresses is very limited. Already his appearances in New York and elsewhere have been attended by large crowds, and he has been received everywhere with the greatest enthusiasm...