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...principal speaker of the evening will be Dr. Louis Joseph Kopald, whose subject will be: "Should Reform Judaism be Reformed." Dr. Kopald, who was born in Kracow, Austria, in 1885 now occupies the pulpit of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, and is one of the main forces in the Student Congregation movement. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...one thing, it took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...
...that up. The sailor came in unprecedented numbers to live in towns that had seldom really known him before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof and consider...
...peace seemed a more distant object than today. Nor has victory ever seemed to require such titanic effort. Even the most optimistic man now knits his brow and wonders how it is all coming out. We knew last April that our task was to be a terrible one, that we were going against a mass of forces which had never before been brought together in such military perfection. We expected that we would meet the ebb-tide of war in many disappointments and a few failures, but few of us possessed sufficient prophetic skill to see that a situation like...
That trust has not been shaken one jot. That enthusiasm has not waned, although it has become tempered and sobered. It is not that a possible defeat is staring us in the face and that it is consequently good for our national morale. Such theories may be effective with an athletic team, but they do not apply to nations. Yet it is incontrovertible that an appreciation of the real gravity of a situation is a source of strength. To carry on a good fight one must know what the measure of his antagonist is. Now for the first time...