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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft bill takes some shape of life from the primieval slime out of which Congress created it, we are able to see a little more clearly what manner of men will form our new armies. It has been estimated that ten million men will be of the age subject for conscription. That is almost as large a total as Russia might offer. It is larger by two-thirds than the whole forces the German Empire has put in the field. Yet her men have been able to hold half the world at bay. The power in numbers of our nation...
America goes forth in a few weeks time to fight nobly for liberty. Our desire, hardened to unchangeable determination, is to free Europe from Germany. That is a laudable determination, and true to our history. Yet not ten million fighting men could free Europe from her ignorance, her ancient brutality, her narrowness, and her political sin. That rests with Europe. And to date that Government which has been called the most enlightened democracy existent has refused to recognize the freedom of women...
...fertility of this nation is taxed at the rate of six billions pounds of foodstuffs which go into the production of forms of alcohol which have no social nor economic value. That is enough, as our economists have shown, at a low estimate to provide sustenance for seven million men for a year. Such figures might be compiled indefinitely. They may be gained from any governmental report...
...campaign has been launched for a million-dollar endowment fund for the Law School. Funds are needed for the library, scholarships, lecture rooms, teaching and research professorships, loan purposes, and to enable the School to carry on its publication work. The progress and growth of the law, the great annual output of administrative decisions and the general expansion of all sorts of legal literature will call for large expenditures if the School is to maintain its up-to-date library...
...Comparatively few graduates of the school know, or can have any adequate idea of, the present work of the school and its needs. The school needs an endowment of at least one million dollars...