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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There has been no more perplexing problem of politics in the history of any nation than England's Irish question. In the present crisis it has assumed so serious a character that it present a direct obstacle to a successful prosecution of the war. Conscription and home rule are inseparably bound up with racial and political prejudice. They involve the danger of great discord in British unity. They must be looked upon in two lights, that of justice and that of expediency...
...Irish have borne the brunt of much misrule and the question of Ireland is, no doubt, a black page in English history. For the present, nevertheless, the Irish have failed to appreciate their obligations and have conducted themselves in a manner out of harmony with the safety of the empire. In mixing home rule and conscription, England has blundered both as regards justice and expediency. Irish conscription we must have; and home rule we may have, but the two bear no direct relation to each other...
...second $100,000,000 will open this morning with three committees canvassing the dormitories for subscriptions. During the week every student will be reached by the committees and asked to contribute to the Red Cross War Fund. All subscriptions will be cash, pledges not being acceptable in the present drive. Liberty Bonds of all issues, however, will be received as readily as cash, and students are urged, if possible, to contribute in this...
...George Smith Hall will be reserved for ladies, as will the various proctors' rooms. No plans have been made for boxes, and the dance program will be entirely informal, although it is expected that a number of men will combine in making out impromptu dance orders. It is the present plan of the committee to limit cutting in as much as possible, except during the encores...
...however, in "The Hand of God," by Mr. Strout, and "A Glow of Sacred Fire," by Mr. Henderson, both of them stories of rural life and both of them tragic in theme, that the excellence of the present number of the Advocate chiefly consists. Dialect presents many difficulties even for the trained hand, and in this regard Mr. Strout and Mr. Henderson have acquitted themselves remarkably well. Of the two stories the former is the more ambitious, and is, perhaps, partly on that account, the more uneven. The semi-detached prelude, in which for a moment the author intrudes...