Nov. 5, 1915. 
THE OPENING oF A Law Scuoor in Cambridge for 
women is a new departure in legal and educational cir- 
cies. Harvard has always refused to receive women into 
its professional schools. The new school is unaffiliated, 
but will follow the general plans of the Harvard Law 
School. The lecturers in that school will also be enlisted 
to teach the courses in the new school. The legal pro- 
fessions afford many openings for women and in provid-. 
ing for their education along modern lines the founders 
of the new school have rendered the young women who 
desire to enter the law, a service. Women need legal ad- 
vice and there is every reason why women should have 
the privilege and opportunity to seek advice from bar- 
risters at law of their own sex, who have been carefully 
and efficiently trained. It is impossible to prevent women 
from entering the field to practice law and that they 
should be well trained is indisputable. 
Tue Twetrta ANNUAL CONVENTION of the Nation- 
al Rivers and Harbors Congress, is to be held in Wash- 
tington, D. C., on the eighth, ninth and tenth of December 
next. It is plainly evident that there is a strongly organ- 
ized movement on foot which is intended to bring about 
the stoppage of all improvements of the waterways of the 
Tnited States and their complete abandonment as high- 
ways of transportation. Whatever the motive behind 
this movement, its success could have but one result, viz. : 
giving to the railroads a complete monopoly of inland 
transportation. The Breeze believes that this would 
mean disaster to every interest in the country, including 
the railroads, and that the highest possible prosperity can 
he secured and maintained only through the equal de- 
velopment and the harmonious co-operation of highways, 
railways and waterways. 
AMERICA IS STILT, RECEIVING war orders in surpris- 
ing volume. There appears to be no end of business op- 
portunities for those who are engaged in such lines of 
manufacture that makes it possible for the proprietors 
to readjust their factories either for the textile needs of 
the armies or for the manufacture of ammunition. In 
New England the iron foundries, the ship yards, the tex- 
tile mills and the electric power plants are working night 
and day. For the time being the work spells prosperity 
for the workers, but what a price to pay for it? 
It 1s INTERESTING to go back over the files of news- 
papers of a year or more ago and read the sanguine pro- 
phecies of a “short” war of from three to five months. 
If the world could only feel sure that the world war 
would end in a year it would be cause for thanksgiving 
and rejoicing. 
A VotTE FoR PRINCIPLE is never lost, but what right 
has the man who lost his vote, voting for principle, to 
assume that those who voted differently did not votre 
for principle. 
Tut Frequency with which the newspapers are 
called upon to record the activities of borb conspirators 
indicates that America is not escaping the general conse- 
quences of war. 
THE ProHIBITION IssuE will loom up strong some 
day and party leaders are reading the signs of the times. 
Tue Rift In THE Lute of the republican party has 
been mended. . 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Evening Light 
[The Icelandic poet, Steingrim Thorsteinsson, likens 
Iceland to a lady dressed in white and sitting by the sea.| 
She sits by the sea, in her dress of white, 
And cools her feet in the pearly spary. 
Where the waters roll through the summer night, 
Flashing the flame of a dying day. 
With Crimson hue, 
The light streams through 
Yon rifted blue, 
Darting athwart each rolling billow, 
As the sun slips down to its midnight pillow. 
Riding at anchor, with slackened chain, 
Yon sloop, cn the heaving breast of Ran,* 
With sea-tears moist from the weeping main 
Cradles in sleep toil-weary man. 
Still, billows roll, 
From Tropic goal, 
O’er shingle shoal, 
And the eider’s nest on the sedgy strand,— 
Valhalla’s peace wraps a weary land. 
The billow loses its roving power, 
Dying in joy at Iceland’s knee, 
Content to bring at the witching hour, 
Guerdon of shine from the silver sea; 
It bears the smile 
From Tropic isle 
To Arctic pile. 
I would that I were a roving wave, 
With light to gladden the strand I lave. 
The fifay nods in the vibrant air 
Above the meadow its snowy crest, 
Where shepherd and dog, a dowsy pair, 
By lapping waters are lulled to rest,— 
Till snowy swan, 
With silver horn, 
Shall trump the morn, 
And the sun returning shall gild the shore,— 
While the billows roll as they rolled before. 
—W. S. C. Russeu. 
Springfield, 1915. 
*Ran—The sea goddess of the ancient Norsemen. 
7Fifa—The cotton grass. 
Very Lirtne Has EManartep from the British of- 
ficers concerning the efforts being made to circumvent the 
raids made by German submarines. Everyone knows 
iiistinctively, however, that men of brains have been work- 
ing on that great problem. The few submarine attacks 
during the last few weeks does not mean that Germany 
has given up her submarine policy. To give up that 
policy would be the surrender of her only hope on the 
sea. Can it mean that Britain has at last found a way 
to defeat the submarine and has cleared the sea or has 
devised a method to prevent attack. The submarine has 
ied its way for a long while, but the brain of man that 
conceived that undersea phenomenon will be able to de- 
v:se something to defeat it. 
- Mrs. E. A. Whipple and family are among the laie 
dwellers at West Manchester this autumn as usual. They 
returned to Boston yesterday for the winter. 
