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Classes for those interested in passing the Senior American Red Cross life-saving test will begin Tuesday, April 27, in the New Indoor Athletic Building Robert Muir, assistant swimming coach, is teaching instructors for the course this week...
PERHAPS the most valuable instrument in the hands of the historian is "time". It is easy to censure or to praise from the safe distance of four or five decades, whereas the contemporary critic is in constant danger of blemishing his own reputation. Mr. Muir bore this in mind when he wrote this little volume on the world after the war of 1914, and he takes the precaution to temper his political prescience with such phrases as "Time alone can reveal the results," or "Whatever the outcome, it will rank among the great events of human history...
...cannot blame the author for thus covering his tracks. The war left a world so fraught with danger and complication that any prediction as to the final outcome must be, at best, speculative and qualified. Mr. Muir has, however, given a very orderly and concise review of the situation both before and after the war. He has outlined the various forces such as Nationalism and Imperialism which rushed the world headlong into the crisis of 1914 in a clear and convincing fashion. And he has gone on to show the several trends that are present in Europe today, whether...
...this very fact Muir sees the ways of peace. He says that the world today is a political and economic unit and he hopes that these two forces will bring about a social integration that will eliminate the possibility of war. It is this unity that makes possible the League of Nations, says Muir, and it is the League which will make possible eternal peace, if such a thing can be obtained...
This examiner's test is considerably more difficult than the senior life saving test, and Coach Bob Muir advises men who intend to take the test to get into condition now, by swimming occasionally in the pool. The test to be taken at the end of the three weeks includes holding a ten-pound weight above the surface for several minutes by treading water, swimming a quarter of a mile free style, and retrieving a brick in ten feet of water without diving...