DUTY OF COLLEGES DURING WAR

President Schurman of Cornell, addressing the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, spoke of the task which, because of the European war, has devolved upon the American universities. "So long as the European up-heaval continues, it will devolve on the colleges and universities of America to take the lead in upholding the civilization of the world." Continuing on the subject of the military training given at Cornell President Schurman said: "Valuable as a military training is for the individual himself and for the Republic, it is of course only an incident in the main work and business of the university.

And today, when the greatest war the world has ever seen is convulsing Europe and disturbing all the continents and oceans of the globe, so that men's minds are every where absorbed with the varying spectacle of contending physical forces, it is more than ever necessary to recognize that civilization consists of peaceful industry, of the physical well-being of the people, of good government, of virtuous character and righteousness, of education and intelligence and of the activities of art, science, and the highest functions of the human spirit. To these intellectual and spiritual objects, colleges and universities are dedicated. They are the antithisis of brute force and are essentially a protest against it."