Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lessons from the war and how athletics may best contribute to active service will be the main topics of discussion at the annual Athletic Conference of the New England Colleges in the Boston City Club tonight at 8 o'clock. Captain F. W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the Athletic Association, will be the representative from the University at the convention, where delegates from many colleges will meet to consider a number of problems relating to intercollegiate athletics...
Among the questions to be discussed tonight are whether coaching methods should be under the direction of men with permanent appointments and how changes in the method of conducting athletics may be made to increase the efficiency of college men for war service...
...principle of militarism is destroyed, the promises would be kept no better than those broken in the past. Autonomy of other races would mean their organization for the strengthening of Germany; until she had control of the resources of a population of 200,000,000 for her next war. Such a settlement would be a mere truce pending another strife...
...upshot of this war is inconclusive the whole world will be preparing for another. During any temporary truce men of science in all countries will devote much of their thought to making engines more destructive and more deadly for the next struggle which will be well nigh a war of extermination...
...Civilization as we know it has reached a point where it must preclude war or perish by war and war can be precluded only by a conquest of the world by a single power, or by an organization of many nations to prevent its recurrence...