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...another column is an appeal from a correspondent for Princeton to wake up. Indifference to the seriousness of what the European nations are facing has led to the calm, matter-of-fact, satisfied aspect concerning life which is so much to be deplored. Princeton is sleeping, peacefully not only as regards the immense national issues which demand deep consideration, but also those university issues which are evils because of indifference. Daily Princetonian
...must regard the situation from a practical, matter-of-fact point of view, and must resist our desire to forsake routine for novelty. He concluded with saying, "Take no risk of distracting and distressing your fathers, mothers, and friends without sufficient reason. Remember that the risk you take is not only for yourself, but for those who are near you. Stick to your work here until your work becomes war, and then answer the call of your country and go and fight with everything that is within...
...work and steady concentration, it encourages lazy and vicious habits." He finds that he "has known more men who have lost early ideals during their four years than" he has "known men who have won new ones;" "that the greater number of the student body were desperately matter-of-fact, intellectually shallow, utilitarian, interested, the same as crass Philistines outside of College, only in money-making, women and amusements;" "That most of" his "classmates were easy materialists and hedonists, at best well clothed, clean-cut young barbarians;" and "that those men who did not drink were looked upon with something...
...other articles of interest to the warlike-minded are James Grant Wilson's sketch of Von Moltke and the second part of Arthur Sherburne Hardy's account of the Japanese Army. One would hardly believe that the author of this matter-of-fact description of military maneuvers in Japan could have written the "Wind of Destiny" and "Passe-Rose." But Mr. Hardy was a soldier himself once, while calculations of the velocity of Japanese riffles must be easy work to the Dartmouth professor of mathematics...
After Milton comes the classical age, and the Christian mythology ceases to inspire poetry. The classical poets return to the dead and formal use of the personifications and abstractions of the heathen mythology. We have the Devil of De Foe's matter-of-fact "History;" but here the Devil is the old popular Devil with the horns, tail, and cloven foot, which he acquired in the Middle Ages period of his evolution, His principal occupation is to play the devil with old women and other simple people, and we find little new in him. This same Devil has appeared from...