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Seldom has it been our fortune to come across a more lucid exposition of the true militarist position than that presented yesterday by Mr. Schenck. His conception of the pacifist position is that "the continued prevalence of rain is due to the pernicious custom of carrying umbrellas." While gloriously and completely missing the fundamental premise of the anti-militarist doctrine, Mr. Schenck has in one simile clearly exposed the basic fallacy of militarism. To the militarist war is an evitable as rain; it being futile to try to prevent rain, we can only resign ourselves to protection against...
...adapted unerringly to the issue before him. But a part of this very spontaneity results from his long reflections over the problems and the solutions of the past. He interprets antiquity in another way as well, for he is a master of language that suggests Hellenic moderation, the lucid depths and golden simplicity of Sophocles. E. K. RAND...
...some Western colleges. A very enthusiastic review is given of "The Mediaeval Mind" by H. O. Taylor '78. From the Bulletin of the Royal Gardens at Kew is reprinted an English view of the Arnold Arboretum in which high praise is given the Arboretum and Professor Sargent. An admirably lucid account is given of the present relations between Harvard and the city of Cambridge, which every Harvard man should read. Another number might well contain an article describing the relations of some of the Western universities to their communities, as, for instance, Wisconsin. R. A. Morton, Jr., '11, advocates...
...death of William James this University loses one who brought it high honor in many lands. As a man of science he left his mark on several departments of knowledge, while as a literary man he charmed all who read his lucid and picturesque pages. In him science and humanism were singularly combined. Learned as he was, he had none of the pedantry of the scholar. His books, besides illuminating their subjects, were creative of character, and through them he became one of the chief spiritual forces of our time...
...does Harvard alone attest his greatness. His mental precision and unusual capacity for lucid and apt discrimination have enabled him to treat public questions with singular authority and with an unerring instinct for the aspirations and needs of society. He has touched no subject without illuminating it; he has stood firmly for collegiate and civic righteousness; and so sane have been his counsels, so masterly his power of statement, that he not only commands today the attention of America, but he is honored by scholars and thinkers throughout the world. He has set an example to all by the simplicity...