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with strong competition and capable and enthusiastic officials,
there is every reason to believe the team will be a strong one.
Manager Cromlish should receive the hearty support of every
one, and when the small assessment is made, lighten the burdens
of his office by paying your assessment voluntarily.
A TERM of the college year is gone, and we have crossed the
threshold of another term. Many can look back with satisfac
tion conscious of a good hard terms work. Others who have
loafed hard and now find themselves behind in their studies are
brought to a keen realization of the importance of steady, system
atic and conscientious work. It is impossible to recall the past
and do over again that which we would desire to do, but the sen
sible student will profit by past mistakes and go steadily to work
with the firm determination of improving the remaining oppor
tunities of his course.
May we all recognize the importance of doing good thorough
work each clay for in no other way can we accomplish the true
ends of a college education.
TFu President's message to Congress, which was quickly fol
lowed by clamorous cries for war from the newspapers and by
promises from the governors of the different States to furnish
thousands of troops, has called forth much criticism and censure
from many of our prominent college men.
It is a notable fact that many of our educators, men who are
recognized authorities upon international law and American
history have deprecated this hasty action of our government in
making its first action an ultimatum.
• The utter madness for war which seemed to take possession of
the American people has brought discredit upon our national
dignity, and a continuance of this disgraceful uproar will bring
much discredit upon our high officials whose sacred duty is cool
deliberation in cases involving national disaster.
The honor of our people requires that every peaceable and
honorable effort be made before even a threat of war, and the
hasty action of our President in threatening war in defense of the
Monroe doctrine without previously investigating whether that
doctrine has been violated, was neither dignified nor honorable.
The United States must prove beyond a doubt that Great
Britain is unjustly attempting to extend her boundary line, and
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