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Professor W. B. Munro '99, in a talk before the Freshman Debating Club last night, spoke on "The Lessons of the War." The first lesson learned from the war is that military preparedness is futile if the cause is wrong. "Germany was easily the most thoroughly prepared nation in the war," said Professor Munro, "but her cause was wrong and her military strength availed her nothing." The next point brought out was the necessity of avoiding war in the future, while the last two dealt with the lesson of the war as regards education, mental and physical." The government...
Professor W. B. Munro Ph.D. '99 will be the speaker at a meeting of the Freshman Debating Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, tonight at 7.30 o'clock. His topic is "What is the Most Urgent Lesson of the War?" All members of the Class of 1922 are invited...
...University owes much to Colonel Shannon. His personality impressed itself strongly on the minds of the men who served under him in the summer of 1917. From him they learned the lesson that a real officer must be, at one time, strict and kind and just. They learned that a real officer holds his speech until he has something to say, but on such occasions, speaks with remarkable clearness and force. And, lastly, they learned that a real officer must be at all times a gentleman. He furnished a concrete example for them to follow while their minds were...
...overseas correspondent of the New York Times declared in a recent news dispatch to that paper that "Bolshevism . . . . is the revengeful shadow of reckless modern materialism." Surely this definition by one who is in close touch with the movement and its leaders has its lesson for those who are working frantically to stay the onward course of this anarchic engine of destruction. Their naive attempts to decapitate a beast of this nature by military imprisonment and misdirected propaganda results only in three heads springing up where one grew before. To rid society of the menace of Bolshevism, we must strike...
...should be an individualistic democracy. Individuals must therefore develop themselves. Supervised study does not produce students and to much government does not produce free citizens. Those who look back with regret that they were not permitted to take an active part in the great war, should not forget a lesson which this war has taught,--that it was the men who had best prepared themselves for service in times of peace who were found to be the most useful to their country in times...