"Hold True," Said Prof. Moore

In the second of the series of Monday night meetings for Freshmen which was held in the Smith Hall Common Room last night, Professor E. C. Moore delivered a talk about the opportunity and duty of those who for some reason must stay home from the war.

Professor Moore started his talk with the story of a young fellow in the Ambulance Service who was killed at Salonica, but whom the war changed from a dawdler to a man. "War is good," stated Professor Moore, "in that it makes men. This war has called many from past and present classes of the University, and in so far as they hold themselves true, the war will make them. But if they do not, it will just as surely unmake them as the Civil War ruined so many young men of that day, making them good-for-nothing after the war."

At this point the speaker brought his words home by declaring that unless those who stay here hold themselves just as true on a fixed course, they will become "mere onlookers, helpless to aid in the struggle. In some ways," he went on, "it is harder for us at home than for those who are fighting, for they have a concrete task before them, while we apparently have only a stale, dull, unimportant routine ahead of us."

The meeting was well attended by the Freshmen. A. Beane '11, introduced the speaker, and Dr. A. T. Davison '06 led the singing.