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...book as Rauschenbusch's "Social Principles of Jesus," or Charmand's "Jesus in the Records." It is interesting to consider sometimes what college life would be like if college men were guided in their thought and action by the life of Christ. It is hoped that this year Dr. Fosdick will give a series of talks, with discussion following, on "The Fundamental Principles and Truths of the Christian Religion...
...solution of the present Labor and Capital disputes. Time is also allowed for consideration of Christianity as applied to all professions, including Medicine, Law, Teaching, and Engineering. Every morning there is a large auditorium meeting addressed by some such prominent man as Mott, Eddy, Cotton, MacKenzie-King, Dean Brown, Fosdick, Fitch, or Bishop Brent. The best speakers available are secured, and it is hoped this year in particular to, have some of the leading American statesmen and industrial leaders...
Yesterday in a communication to the CRIMSON, Professor Ralph Barton Perry criticized Dr. Fosdick's denunciation of compulsory military training in Appleton Chapel on Sunday. In commenting on Dr. Fosdick's sermon, Professor Perry writes: "Pacifism combined with staying at home and playing safe I can understand; but pacifism combined with looking for trouble, with ideals of heroism and chivalry, is to my mind contradictory, confusing, and likely to lead in tragic consequences...
Professor Perry thinks Dr. Fosdick inconsistent in denouncing compulsory military training, and at the same time advocating our accepting a mandate for Armenia. Is it reasonable to suppose in accepting the mandate for Armenia the United States must adopt for her own protection the same hateful method that Germany adopted in her project for world domination? We feel that such methods are not necessary or even desirable; that they are not true to the ideals of the Americanism of which we are proud. For a number of years England has exercised virtual mandates for India and in part for Egypt...
...sermon Dr. Fosdick did not advance any Quixotic ideas of knight er-rantry on the part of the United States. He did give expression to a type of splendid American which has been mighty in the past, and which we trust will be mighty in the future. M. J. DONNER '21. P. P. COOGIN...