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Speaking of the history in Homer's works, he said, "We see the germs of many modern institutions, government, home life, and kinship between God and man in his poetry. All nature is alive and free: splendor and squalor, kindness and savage disposition are found side by side...
...with the West will spell her ruin, even as materialistic progress spelled ruin for the other great civilizations of history. This argument deserves weight, but clearly falls to envisage all the facts. The picture painted of a peaceful country sufficient unto itself falls to show in the background the squalor and poverty of the basic population, the bare existence in normal times and the plagues and famines of the years. China, it is true, has lived for centuries clearly independent of the outer world. But she has been unable to meet the demands of an intensive population, the check...
...done practically nothing for charity. Why even small schools have contributed to relief funds, but our University is absolutely unrepresented." If this is literally true, it is shameful. Is it possible that the most broad-minded and humanizing of universities should be totally indiffer- ent to the appalling squalor and starvation of war-rent Europe...
...only other stories in the number are "Five Years After" by an anonymous writer, which is a rather pessimistic picture with an ostensible moral; and "Patsey" by R. A. Wood '03, a story of Irish squalor and wretchedness a trifle too realistic in detail...
...introducing Colonel Hallowell, President Eliot spoke of two elements in the personal courage of the men who fought in the war which were especially affecting and worthy of remembrance. In the first place they went through all the squalor, wretchedness and carnage of war without having any clear vision of their country's future...