Word: talking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second of the series of Monday night meetings for Freshmen which was held in the Smith Hall Common Room last night, Professor E. C. Moore delivered a talk about the opportunity and duty of those who for some reason must stay home from...
Professor Moore started his talk with the story of a young fellow in the Ambulance Service who was killed at Salonica, but whom the war changed from a dawdler to a man. "War is good," stated Professor Moore, "in that it makes men. This war has called many from past and present classes of the University, and in so far as they hold themselves true, the war will make them. But if they do not, it will just as surely unmake them as the Civil War ruined so many young men of that day, making them good-for-nothing after...
...Reverend Henry Van Dyke, D. D., recent Minister to the Netherlands, and Professor of English Literature at Princeton University delivered a forceful talk before an audience of law and graduate students in Phillips Brooks House last night. His subject was "The United States and the World War" and his speech consisted of an indictment of Germany and an absolute justification of the course taken by the United States...
...Dyke began his talk by emphasizing the seriousness of our present position. "We must think it out and fight it out from the beginning. We are conscientious objectors, not in the narrow sense of those who object to fighting but in the larger sense of those who object to the injustice, tyranny, and barbarism of Germany," he stated. At this point, Dr. Van Dyke brought forward a number of arguments proving that the war was long premeditated by Germany, and that the assassination of the Austrian Archduke was the means and not the cause for its origin. He further showed...
...Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening. F. Bela, 1 Med., the president of the club opened his speech by welcoming "everyone who can set aside nationality and take up humanity." "We know the word enemy," he said, "only to deny its significance for ourselves." The main point of his talk was to tell the members of the club that the friendships they made here would be shared by their peoples in future years...