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Feeling that the American arguments had been lacking in substance, Andrew Haddon of Edinburgh University gave vent to the boast that he would "smite them hip and thigh, and scatter the bones of their arguments to the four winds." The whole contention of the English speakers was that pacifism was a good peace time doctrine, but did not reach the fundamental causes...
Taking sharp issue with the belief that war was the worst evil in the world, Haddon asked what would have become of the American contribution to civilization if the fathers of the Revolution had been "lily white pacifists." Even admitting that pacifism was a Christian doctrine, which he vigorously denied. Haddon pointed out that not one-tenth of the world even claimed to be Christian, and that the Mohammedan Koran taught reliance on the "long arm and glittering saber." War is essential to the enforcement of law among nations, just as punishment is needed for civil offences, Haddon maintained...
...Club of Boston, will preside, with C. N. Greenough '98, former Harvard Dean, and S. E. Evans, the British Vice-Consul at Boston, as tellers. A. F. Reel '28, F. W. Lorenzen '28, and Barrett Williams '28, will speak for the University in the order named, opposed by Andrew Haddon, Edinburgh University, John Ramage, London School of Economics and Political Science, and F. O. Darvall, University of Reading...
...Haddon is a Conservative, and in the campaign for the election of Sir John Gilmour to the office of Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, he was abducted by the Liberals and held captive. Haddon has served as secretary, vice-president, and president of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and is a member of the International Committee of the Students' Representative Councils of Scotland. Haddon is also head of the travel department of that organization in Edinburgh...
Since being capped Master of Arts in 1925 Haddon has studied law, and is now in the last year of study for the degree of Bachelor of Laws in preparation for admission to the Scottish Bar. He is a member of the University Boat Club and has rowed for his faculty...