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What was announced as the beginning of a nation-wide movement against the "cult of preparedness" which has sweeping the country was launched at Washington yesterday with the formation of the Anti-Militarism Committee which has opened headquarters in Washington and is said to be in close conference with the anti-preparedness minority in both the Senate and the House. It characterizes itself as a movement to "pretest against the attempts to stampede this nation into the adoption of a dangerous program of military and naval expansion...
Norman Angell, a pacifist and journalist of wide experience in matters of diplomacy, will speak on "America and the European Settlement" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock...
...undecided about his future vocation. Four undergraduate years, as many more in the professional school, and a subsequent period of hospital service, frighten away the man who requires quick material results. The field is left for those who seek in it life-long service, a keen and wide knowledge of human nature, and opportunity for gratifying scientific interest...
...leader he is also set to be the personal friend of the men and women and children in his parish, to exercise, with a sort of affectionate disinterestedness, the functions of guide and counsellor in their individual lives. It is this portion of his work which gives him so wide and inclusive a contact with his generation. And it tends to make him what all great ministers have been, a supreme humanist; a man, that is, who finds the rewards of life not in material possessions, but in the ever more wide and intelligent contact with and influence over...
...editorial room, which is on the right side of the main entrance, is about 35 feet long and 25 feet wide. The assignment editor's desk and table are separated from the rest of the room by an oak railing. The opposite corner of the room is partitioned off with glass to form the managing editor's office. The night editor's desk is in the centre of the editorial office...