Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Participation by America in the general European conflict would be a misfortune to humanity...
...total income of the University, including the income from funds and gifts, which is $1,787,957.20, and the general income from tuition fees and rents, was $2,935,419.65. Tuition fees made up $769,944 of this total, and the rent of College dormitories yielded $162,451.12. The expenditures totaled $2,961,267.36 or, subtracting the deficit of restricted income met by charges against funds and gifts...
...paragraph 6 we are told that "participation by America in the general European conflict would be a misfortune to humanity." Have we any special claim to being the pet of humanity? Just as good people as we are fighting and they are fighting on the side of humanity. Should we smugly hold ourselves to be too good to fight by their sides? We are not the chosen people of humanity, though if we were would we not be under even greater obligations to defend...
Finally, we are told that "democracy demands a general referendum before a declaration of war." And what is to happen to us while the referendum vote is being taken? In the present controversy Germany could continue to kill our people, to sink our ships, could send submarines into our harbors while we peacefully prepared to vote, telling her to be careful since we might vote against allowing her to continue. What a disappointment such a vote would be to Germany! How hurt she would feel to have her fun stopped! It might even make her angry...
...acting is all that could possibly be desired. Miss Henrietta Crossman as the Mayoress does what is really a wonderful piece of work. In many respects the Mayoress is the most subtle feat of characterization Mr. Shaw has accomplished. Mr. Lumsden Hare, as the scarlet general, succeeds in conveying just the right degree of appalling sentimentality characteristic of soldiers. Mr. Charles Cherry, as one of the slightly attractive super-cads, Mr. Shaw is so fond of depicting, achieves the best piece of characterization we have ever seen from him. Mr. Edwin Cushman, as the High Church curate, is appropriately preposterous...