Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Davison '06, organist and director of the University Chapel choir: Prelude (First Symphony), Vierne Choral Prelude, "Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen," Brahms Scherzo, Schumann Air, Fugue and Variation, Franck Allegro (Fourth Concerto), Handel Andante (Fifth Symphony), Widor Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Bach "Evening Calm," Rheinberger Finale, Franck
...presented by Professor A. T. Davison '06, University organist and choir-master: Prelude (First Symphony), Vierne Choral Prelude, "Es ist ein' Ros' en-tsprungen," Brahms Scherzo, Schumann Air, Fugue and Variation, Franck Allegro (Fourth Concerto), Handel Andante (Fifth Symphony), Widor Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Bach "Evening Calm," Rheinberger Finale, Franck
This meeting, however, is to be of a very different nature. The military courses which the University has planned will be discussed and explained in a calm and dignified manner, so much so that the most devout disciple of parlementarianism will be delighted. The time for mob enthusiasm has long been past; and the organizers of this meeting are well aware of it. The time for sitting down and working on national problems is with us at this hour. The war with Germany is a grave problem. It was thought three years ago that the Allies could defeat Germany...
...knowledge that we are called upon to fight as a nation in arms, rather than as an honest broker for braver peoples, may work some havoc to our calm peace, and our pride in our fat prosperity. But we will gather from that knowledge a new consciousness of our former strength. We will awaken to the call for sacrifice, and give our very utmost for that cause which we have undertaken...
...back and blandly tell ourselves that we are acting for humanity when we do nothing, that we have been calm, deliberate and judicious, that we avoided creating a scene and did not give an unpleasant exhibition of temper. And in later years we can tell our children what a high-minded and unselfish part we played in the great war, how we held ourselves aloof and reaped many benefits. But could we ever escape the memory of the dead? Try as we would we could never forget them, and with most it would be in the future...