Lincoln and the Present World Crisis
An Address Before the Lincoln Club of Springfield, Ill., February 12th, 1917.
An Address Before the Lincoln Club of Springfield, Ill., February 12th, 1917.
Part II
Part I
The ride from the Capitol to the White House at the head of the inaugural parade was a spectacle of color, predominant in it all being the orange and black...
“The lesson of this election is a lesson responsibility. I believe that a great cause has triumphed, but a cause can not go forward by the activities of a single...
“And so, gentlemen, as a business proposition what ought we to do? Take the money at the risk of having no graduate students, or get the graduate students at the...
“The comfort and convenience of class-room work and of preceptorial conferences have been immeasurably increased by the completion of McCosh Hall, a building which has in use confirmed in every...
“The result is that our school curricula and the courses provided in our colleges have become a perfect miscellany, without order and without standard. It is time that we recognize...
“We live in a very confused time. The economic developments which have embarrassed our life are of comparatively recent origin, and our chief trouble is that we do not exactly...
“The plan in its briefest terms is this: to draw the undergraduates together into residential quads in which they shall eat as well as lodge together, and in which they...