Word: war
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President Samuel Harden Church of the Carnegie Institute is firmly in sympathy with the exclusion of German music from orchestra programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would...
This feeling of recoil, even of hatred, is human enough to be easily comprehensible, but does its stimulation into a frenzy hasten or retard our war-making and is it, therefore, to be encouraged or discouraged? We fail to see how an American, by refusing to hear an orchestra play the music of Mozart or Beethoven, either spites or weakens the Kaiser or adds a bit to our fighting strength. Why not keep our energies within effective channels. --Boston Advertiser...
General Maude turned Mesopotamia from a war theatre of disappointments and disasters to one of great possibilities. Where so many British commanders failed, he made good. Heavy is the sudden loss of one who many believed would be England's second Kitchener...
...War Department has ordered that all applicants for the Third Series of Officers' Training Camps must be examined at their own expense by some reputable physician. R. O. T. C. applicants may have their examination free at Weld 4, between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock daily. Men who wish to take advantage of this opportunity must bring their application blanks with them to be signed by the examiner. All blanks should be handed in as soon as possible...
...Faculty Committee in charge of the University Series of War Lectures has announced than the fourth speaker will be Professor Wallace C. Sabine, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. He will speak in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, taking as his subject, "Aviation and the War." Professor Sabine was away all last year on leave of absence and he spend the entire time abroad doing scientific work connected with the war, in this way gaining an unusual firsthand knowledge of conditions in the warring countries, especially in England, France and Italy...