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...allowing students who will enter war service to leave early. Those of us who are lucky enough to be enrolled in Uncle Sam's forces at any time after April 14 will receive full credit for the courses in which we have done creditably. This is not a wanton generosity on the part of the College; it is merely an award of work done well by men eager to do their part, but prevented by age or unavoidable circumstances. To have spent so much of a year in College and to go unrewarded would be an absurd as well...
...German towns are destroyed in some wanton and tragedically useless way, it will not be the airmen who manned Germany's raiding machines who will be punished. It will not be those stern minds which ordered the raid, nor the nourishers of that fierce policy of conquest which has led Germany on through the ruin of nations and the ruin of our frail human morality to the goal for which she would almost pay her life. It is not the workers of evil who would suffer by any scheme of revenge that might be planned...
...China, with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given the best of equipment and training, as the people are in this country, the question whether they are cowardly can then be decided on the battlefield in a future war. If China should have awakened fifty years earlier, and succeeded...
...gained fast in wisdom and prophecy. On the latter date it says: "It would be well if we could put off till tomorrow what seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off. . . . We are now so near war that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom." Since that date the second American ship has been sunk and other American lives destroyed but we are not yet at war. The cocksureness of the CRIMSON has not even pulled...
...seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off, not by the desires of one nation, nor the delay of its young men. Preparation against calamity takes long. Yet calamity itself comes suddenly, overnight. We are so near war now that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom...