The Days of a Man 1915 



great importance in connection with current efforts 



at mediation and the personal work I had thought 



of undertaking in Holland or Switzerland. Both 



matters interested him, but he characterized my 



''Along tentative plan as "a long shot/' though perhaps 



shot " worth trying. He further assured me that my views 



as to conditions in Europe tallied perfectly with his 



own, which he freely expressed. 



J n Philadelphia on November 19 I gave the 

 "George Dana Boardman Address on Christian 

 Ethics" before the University of Pennsylvania, my 

 subject being "World Peace and the College Man." 

 From this I quote several paragraphs : 



"The picked half million!" Thus William T. Stead used to 

 speak of the college men of Great Britain. "It is theirs to 

 command while the world must obey." They are the men who 

 must think for themselves, and the man who can think should 

 be the man who can act. To this potent group the men before 

 me belong. You are among the chosen million of America, 

 and to you I wish to say a word as to the world catastrophe 

 in which you with the rest of the civilized world are now 

 involved. 



It is your right and your duty to see things as they really 

 are, with the eye of a scholar rather than of the partisan. It 

 is your privilege and your duty to help others see them so. 

 The scholar should know the things that abide in human 

 affairs and distinguish them from those that are temporary 

 and illusory. . . . His business is the truth and the application 

 of truth to the affairs of our race. . . . 



Men of the University of Pennsylvania, scholars already made 

 and scholars in the making, I appeal to you to do your part 

 in thought and action in this, the greatest crisis of the civilized 

 world. What is your relation to the problems of war and 

 peace? Where do you stand when the work of restoration 

 comes, when you shall be called upon as experts in the healing 



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